Anyone know how to stream media through a school firewall? The IT ppl say only port 80 is open or sumthin, and tht If I want to stream mms links and stuff, they have to come through port 80 … I was just wondering, I have many mms links that don’t come through port 80, but are set to stream through other ports…Is there a way I can somehow redirect the stream links to come through port 80?? (I’m not that technical about this stuff, dunno much about ports and all, so please give me an east way, like maybe a software that can play mms links even through heavy firewalls or wutever)
U can use http streaming thru port 80:
1- Create html file with link to file.ra (for real media meta-file)
2- create a file called file.ra (plain text file with the link to the exact media file. e.g. http://www.domain.com/realmediafile.rm (for the actual music file)). This is also called the meta-file
3- put the media file in the location specified in # 2. and you are good to go.
Hey Tofibaba thanks a looOT …but Can you please give me step by step (like more details) …i’m not tht good with this stuff…i think i got the .ra file, by putting the link in a text doc and renaming the extenstion to .ra … but i couldn’t figure out how to make the .html one or the # 3 part…pleaase help me out…
Once you have the encoded file (e.g. realmediafile.rm) the #1 page is straightforward. This is the link you put in the HTML file:
<A HREF="file#2.ra">this is my media file</A>
I may have messed up the extensions somewhere actually. I’m trying to remember how I first set this up a long long time ago (during the days of Bilal.net, if anyone remembers him, him and I put our pages roughly a few mths apart).
Let me know if it doesn’t work and we can make some mods.
waqi… if you have an rm or ra file, you can create a text file
and put the following text in it
http://www.myserver.com/music/myfile.rm
and save the file as .RAM ( when you save the text file, choose type “All Files” and then add .ram at the end of the file name
you will see that the text file that you saved as .ram will have a real player icon on it… This is what you do if you don’t want to stream media rather than letting somoeone download the RM file.
Alright thanks a lot both of you, I'll try your suggestions out...I just wish there was some software which could just redirect the streaming or sumthin automatically so it came through port 80, since the link I have is intended to come through some other port....but I'll try these suggestions out...Thanks a lot :)
… I was just wondering, I have many mms links that don’t come through port 80, but are set to stream through other ports…Is there a way I can somehow redirect the stream links to come through port 80?? (I’m not that technical about this stuff, dunno much about ports and all, so please give me an east way, like maybe a software that can play mms links even through heavy firewalls or wutever) 
…i’m not tht good with this stuff…i think i got the .ra file, by putting the link in a text doc and renaming the extenstion to .ra … but i couldn’t figure out how to make the .html one or the # 3 part…pleaase help me out…