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Network security firewalls create special challenges for the network game programmer. Firewalls may block all network connections except for outgoing web browser requests and their responses. As firewalls are becoming more common both at work and at home, the networking code of your game client needs to be able to automatically pass messages through these firewalls to the game server without player or network administrator intervention.
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Hughes, Merlin et al. Java Network Programming: A Complete Guide to Networking, Streams, and Distributed Computing, 2nd edition. Greenwich, CT: Manning Publications Co., 1999.
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Croft, D.W. (2004). HTTP Tunneling. In: Advanced Java Game Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0713-9_9
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