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I'm trying to implement a software registration in my application. When the user registers, it checks our server for the software license they entered to see if its' valid. From what I've read on the web, I needed to do this using FTP. I'm still using VS2003 so webclients are not available. Everything seemed to work fine until one of our customers was behind a well protected firewall. For datasocket transmission I'm using PASV mode, but they still can't register. In fact, they can't even log into our FTP server. My question is: Is using FTP the best way of sending files and data between server and client with C# .NET 1.0? If so, how would this customer register if behind a firewall. Would they need to have their IT guys allow access to our IP address? Thanks, Brian
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I'm trying to implement a software registration in my application. When the user registers, it checks our server for the software license they entered to see if its' valid. From what I've read on the web, I needed to do this using FTP. I'm still using VS2003 so webclients are not available. Everything seemed to work fine until one of our customers was behind a well protected firewall. For datasocket transmission I'm using PASV mode, but they still can't register. In fact, they can't even log into our FTP server. My question is: Is using FTP the best way of sending files and data between server and client with C# .NET 1.0? If so, how would this customer register if behind a firewall. Would they need to have their IT guys allow access to our IP address? Thanks, Brian
Another good idea would be to implement a registration service via http. You have a 99% chance that you clients would have port 80 open. Perhaps in you VS app you can have a link to your server which will allow then to register from there.