I completely agree, these port restrictions make no sense. These type of restrictions make creating rich client applications meant for interfacing with existing protocols and services impossible. If I wanted to create a silverlight FTP Client application
I would need to create a relay server to marshall all the requests from a non-restricted port over to the target port.
Well, as I concluded, the main issue is of course security.. Hopefully they will eventually get around to realizing how limiting this is. (And I guess there was plenty of other pressing issues with the release, so this just wasn't prioritized.)
spoo
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Socket restrictions
Nov 07, 2008 06:23 PM | LINK
Just let me get this straight, since B2, and in RTW, the restrictions on sockets are:
1. Only allowed to connect to socket servers running in the port range 4502-45342. A socket access policy server must be running on :943
Or...?
My rant on this, if so: http://spoox.org/wp/2008/11/07/silverlight-and-socket-support-what-were-they-thinking/
GuinnessKMF
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Re: Socket restrictions
Nov 07, 2008 07:17 PM | LINK
I completely agree, these port restrictions make no sense. These type of restrictions make creating rich client applications meant for interfacing with existing protocols and services impossible. If I wanted to create a silverlight FTP Client application I would need to create a relay server to marshall all the requests from a non-restricted port over to the target port.
spoo
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Re: Re: Socket restrictions
Nov 11, 2008 08:33 AM | LINK
Well, as I concluded, the main issue is of course security.. Hopefully they will eventually get around to realizing how limiting this is. (And I guess there was plenty of other pressing issues with the release, so this just wasn't prioritized.)