Erwin Craps - IT Helps
Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Tue Dec 20 15:08:43 CST 2005
I could make a call to the Internet Explorer from within Excel and let IE do a post... I'm using that in one of my apps (from Access), I'm not sure, but pretty sure the firewall will see IE as the app originator. Which is in this case always allowed. Most Companies dot not have a firwall on each pc... Erwin -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens Stuart McLachlan Verzonden: dinsdag 20 december 2005 21:54 Aan: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Onderwerp: Re: [dba-Tech] Securing Excel File to avoid E-mail forwards On 20 Dec 2005 at 21:27, Erwin Craps - IT Helps wrote: > I'm not that sure about that. > If it's a regular port 80 post it should work, when the user has > internet access. > Wich I'm sure he has in this case. > Any decent personal firewall and many corporate one will block it because only certain applications are allowed access to certain ports and Excel is not usually used as an HTTP client. -- Stuart _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com