Subject Re: [firebird-support] Superclassic, firewalls and events - a question
Author Milan Babuskov
Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:
> SS or CS has the same features, both supports events, if one tells me CS
> does not support events

It does support. Problem is only when CS is behind a firewall.

> Events are a reverse connection, the client app becomes a server
> listenning to a specific port for the events server sends.

No. Client app is *never* listening. Server opens a secondary listener
on a different port.

> The problem would be a firewall on the client side that has nothing
> related to the server architecture.

It has. Please read in detail here:

http://www.flamerobin.org/events_paper.pdf


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Milan Babuskov
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