Available ports and the flash client

[EvelKub]

Good Evening,

Please pardon my post if this has already been answered. I did a search of the forum and didn't come up with anything. Those in the Support channel suggested I post here.

I really like the way the flash client looks and would really like to utilize it on my group's website. The issue that I am coming up with is that many of the members would be accessing from work, and after testing, are unable to connect.

We have done a bit of troubleshooting using other IRC servers and have determined the issue is based on what ports are opened on their firewall. It appears that non web ports are closed, while 80 and 8080 work okay.

I have attempted to connect to port 8080 on irc.everywherechat.com and found that the daemon appears to not be running on that port.

So my three questions are:
1) Would it be possible to open this port for use on the server?
2) Is there an argument I can pass to the flash client when it loads to have it connect to this port instead of the standard 6667?
3) Does your server require the use of identd (since that port would be blocked as well, as we've learned with a major IRC network's servers that do have port 8080 open.)

Thanks for your consideration,
Chris

[j]

There's a bit more to it than this, really.

The problem with just loading it up on 8080, or something similar, is proxies.

Typically a work environment won't simply open port 80 and port 8080. They'll allow that traffic through a proxy, which communicates with the http protocol.

That means IRC would never work over it.

We do have plans, in the future, to investigate a full http tunnel solution. This would allow people to chat from behind firewalls and proxies. I have no estimates on when this will be completed, though.