Media streaming - CGI chat

[Dolby]

Hi,

Does CGI using a media streaming protocol?

The reason I ask is that work asked me nicely to refrain from media streaming as it's not work related. The only sites I really visit are MyADSL and a CGI chat program. Could it pick up CGI as media streaming?

 

[Ryder_JHB]

I had this issue a very long time ago trying to access Jawug's cgi chat... Turns out it was something related to streaming protocol of some kind not supported by the company firewall....

 

[quovadis]

Ryder ... Jawug uses IRC - the cgi is just an irc client. You still need port 6667 open to connect.

 

[Ryder_JHB]

Yes, as I said, this was a very long time ago (3 years or so) - we had the cgi setup to run on port 443, but it did not work (due to the firewall not supporting / blocking streaming cgi)

That was when I learned all about nice ssh tunnels, and getting through company firewalls!
But I can confirm that some firewalls do seem to have an issue with it!

 

[Dolby]

So to a non-technical person - is that a yes? Their 'media streaming' in my CGI?