> A friend told me I needed to look into using a proxy, but I am not
familiar
> with doing that.  Any help would be greatly appreicated...

> Merry Christmas from Texas y'all....

> Wayne

> What you will probably need is something like SOCKS that will allow you to
> open a connection through the firewall.  You will need to discuss this
with
> your network administrator on how to do this.

> Alternatively, you could use a local proxy to convert your traffic to,
say,
> a TCP/IP stream that is permitted to go through your firewall and
establish
> a connection to a remote server.  You'll need to know the address of a
> similar proxy on the other end to convert your traffic to a form usable by
> you chat program.  This process is actually called tunnelling.  Again, I
> strongly suggest you talk to you network adminstrator before attempting to
> this.  Where I work, you'd probably lose your job over it for trying to
> bypass security measures.

> Charles

> "Wayne Atchley" <wayne.atch...@corning.com> wrote in message
> news:3c234e72$1_1@dnews...
> > I am trying to build a chat program that will work outside of my company
> > firewall.  Basically, my company has blocked all the standard chat apps
> from
> > working (Instant Messanger, MSN Messenger, etc...) since people spend
too
> > much time on these type of programs and too little time actually getting
> > their jobs done....  The problem is, I actually need this type of
> > functionality to do my job.  We are a multinational company and my
office
> is
> > in Texas... But I need to work with some guys in our London Office.
Since
> > this would run my expense account up in LD charges, I was using MSN
> > Messenger to communicate with them about coding issues.

> > A friend told me I needed to look into using a proxy, but I am not
> familiar
> > with doing that.  Any help would be greatly appreicated...

> > Merry Christmas from Texas y'all....

> > Wayne

> Thanks for the advice, you might have saved my job.

> Wayne

> Thanks for the advice, you might have saved my job.

> Wayne Atchley <wayne.atch...@corning.com> wrote in message
> news:3c2365f5_1@dnews...
> > Thanks!  I guess will have to bow to the Admin and try to work something
> out
> > through the proper channels... There is just that internal conflict of I
> am
> > a programmer they are network administrators, I write the software that
> > makes their job possible and they are blocking me... I know an ego
issue,
> > but just hard to get over.

> > Thanks for the advice, you might have saved my job.

> Charles is 100% correct & spot-on.  Email your boss, cc'ing your contact
> abroad, finance and the jobsworths in IS admin, estimating how much
company
> money/time you are wasting.  This usually produces action.  Just be 1000%
> sure you then NEVER chat to anyone about anything except company business,
> else they'll tear you to pieces.

> Merry Xmas,
> Martin