Register with XP Service Pack 2 Firewall

slloyd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a way in perl so register a process with the firewall that comes with XP Service Pack 2? I have a tiny client/server application that fails since the server can no longer get out.

Thanks,
STeve

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Re: Register with XP Service Pack 2 Firewall by waswas-fng (Curate) on Sep 17, 2004 at 21:38 UTC
You can do it via a shell command: `netsh firewall add portopening TCP 80 PortName` [download] for instance will open up incoming port 80's. If you are taking outbound connections that should be allowed on the standard config. You may run into issues where if you open a lot of outbound connections very quickly they become throttled -- I have not found a solution to that yet. -Waswas	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Register with XP Service Pack 2 Firewall by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 17, 2004 at 21:22 UTC
I am not sure about registering but you can open the ports that your application uses.	[reply]
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