outbound

How to verify if server can make outbound requests on port 80 and 443?

In relation to this question on an openid issue I'm having, someone asked me to check whether my server is able to make outbound requests on port 80 and 443. Can you tell me how to verify that? The server is: Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PH...

Making a TCP connection through a restrictive outbound firewall

I'm using Java to create a client/server application that communicates using TCP. The network that the client is running on has an outbound firewall that prevents the client from connecting to the server. Is there any way/workaround to create a TCP connection through this firewall? I have tried to use common ports that are open such as ...

Outbound Inbound URL

Hi can anyone explain the differences between an outbound url and an inbound url? Im doing some code examples in asp.net mvc and don't really understand outbound/inbound url. cheers in advance ...

How to limit SMTP delivery to hourly batches

In an effort to keep us from being labeled spammers by major ISPs (in addition to SPF records, privacy policies, CANSPAM compliance and the like) - I wanted to limit the amount of mail we send out an hour. Is this possible in W2K3 SMTP server? I was looking at outbound connection properties in the SMTP virtual server config screens...It...

Automatically have an outbound rule for every inbound rule?

I've recently moved my site from IIS6 to IIS7. My site uses URL-Rewriting which I had to re-input for the switch to IIS7 as the old URL-Rewriting seems incompatible with the new server. However, I've noticed that IIS7 doesn't automatically re-write my links. For example, if my page is called Folder1/Folder2/PageName and I'm rewriting fr...