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michaelpaul | March 09, 2009 09:58 PM | in Software

Why doesn't TweetDeck or Twhirl work behind my corporate firewall?

I have been able to use TwitterFox (a Firefox add-on/extension) to access twitter behind my company's corporate firewall, but I cannot use apps like TweetDeck or Twhirl. Any reasons why? Curiously, Twhirl is able to receive Replies, but nothing else.

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BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | robotech_master | March 09, 2009 10:17 PM

Without knowing more about both your firewall and the particular apps in question than I do, it could have to do with which ports the applications use. The Firefox add-on may work by HTML, like your web browser, and be able to get in and out the same hole in the firewall that web access uses. The other apps may use other ports. Since the default in corporate firewalls is often to block anything that is not explicitly open, your Twitter apps might not have been specifically targeted; it's just that they need a more open firewall than you have.

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michaelpaul | March 09, 2009 10:48 PM

I like where you're going with this... do you know of any way I can change what port the other apps use? For instance, they're written on the Adobe Air platform, so does Adobe Air store this somewhere, or is it app-specific?

Info re my corporate firewall: locked down like a fortress. I shouldn't say what company's network I'm on, but only that it's heavily fortified.

If I can, I'd like to route all twitter traffic from those apps to port 80 or something... that seems like the easiest solution.

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robotech_master | March 09, 2009 11:01 PM

I don't know. But if I were you, I would not even try. Corporate sysadmins (and their masters, the people with the power to FIRE YOU) tend to look askance at people trying to bypass their lockdowns. If I were you, I would either get used to using the Firefox plugin while at work, or get an iPhone so you could twitter on another network altogether.

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