Firewall?

[CoachBarker]

Is it possible to detect third party firewalls?

We have an application that installs printer off a network, and now they want to know if it is possible to detect any third party firewalls that might stop the installation of the printer.

Thanks
CoachBarker

 

[ss7thirty]

Well there might be. There will be a certain type of exception thrown in your application when they are trying to run a program that will not be allowed. You can find out which type of exception and based on that you will know that a firewall has prevented you or something similar will not let you.

There may be a way, but that is my best guess.