Streaming relies on the successful transmission of TCP and UDP packets to and from the user. Many existing firewalls, however, block either UDP, or both UDP and TCP packets. Tunneling these packets over HTTP alleviates this problem. Many firewalls are set up to allow HTTP through, or are in environments that have HTTP proxies. QuickTime 4.1 now supports the tunneling of packets over HTTP. >
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