Cannot Get Connection -- Could a firewall be blocking it?

John Aldrich JAldrich "at" covista.com
Fri Feb 10 20:12:00 2006


Hal Vaughan scribbled on :
> 
> I don't remember about ssh and right now he's out  of the
> office for a while. We can try that.  Is there any way to
> make VNC look like an HTTP connection? 
> 
> And would it be correct to say his firewall may be
> looking at the packets and blocking it because it is NOT
> an HTTP request even though it is on port 80? 
> 
Yes. Some firewalls will reject non-http traffic on port 80.