[sldev] Viewer Security Record?

[John Hurliman]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 28-Nov-2007, at 09:46, Mark Burhop wrote:
>> We seem to be down to the non-standard ports being blocked and almost 
>> needing an act of god to get them opened.
>
> Isn't there an open-source SL proxy? Couldn't that be used to access 
> SL from behind the firewall?
>
> Speaking as a former "you'll need to convince me to open ports" admin, 
> if you could hand me an open source proxy simple enough to 
> eyeball-verify[1] I'd be a lot more willing to run that than open ports.
>
> If SL can run Socksified (native, or with the Hummingbird Socks socket 
> redirector) that's another option.
>
> [1] preferably one that ran native on UNIX in Tcl, Python/Ruby, C, or 
> Perl (in decreasing order of preference), but that's going to depend 
> on the admin.
>

SLProxy does properly forward UDP and CAPS connections, but you will 
lose voice (which is a completely separate protocol making connections 
to separate servers) which is usually one of the big selling points in 
corporate environments.

John Hurliman