Need suggestions for firewall issue

[Blake81]

Hey,

This is just a quick post regarding the XML weather program I was working on earlier. I've given this program to a few people, and one of them is having a problem with the program being blocked by the corporate firewall where they work. The program just goes to a website and gets the data to use in the program. How would that look any different to a firewall than any other user surfing the Internet? Is there anything I can do to avoid this problem? Thanks.

 

[JohnH]

The only difference to browsing the internet with Internet Explorer is that it is an other application. They probably got a safe list of applications that are allowed to communicate through the firewall, and your application is not yet on that list.