Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: RPC enclosures
Author: Dave Winer Posted: 12/14/1998; 11:31:00 PM Topic: New sample bits Msg #: 1203 (In response to 1202) Prev/Next: 1202 / 1204
The message will go back to the proxy server, and unless it's willing to pass it back to you, you can't get the message. It's probably just these kinds of calls that the firewall is designed to block. So there's no point contacting your sysadmin, unless he's tuned into what you're doing with Frontier and supportive, he's going to say no.I didn't want to say on the page that if you're behind a firewall you can't use this feature, but that's basically the truth unless you run the firewall or if the sysadmin is a fan of your interest in being on the leading edge in web interfaces.
Your fallback is to use the Fat Page, most firewalls don't have an opinion about you saving a page to the disk.
BTW, this is a simple sub-case of the Edit this Page functionality, this issue is why it's likely just an Intranet function in organizations that are security-conscious, at least for the first few years until the market evolves and everyone wants to do it.
Dave
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