From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T07:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: NET::HTTP behind a firewall?


On 06-10-03, at 18:32, Joe Regular wrote:

> Jeremy, thanks for the help. I knew the outgoing connections were made
> on higher ports but I was not sure which range of ports they would be
> made on and I wanted to keep my config as tight as possible. I also
> wanted to know if there was a way to allow a specific process (such as
> the one running ruby) to access all outgoing ports.

I'm not familiar with iptables, so I cannot tell you. But considering  
that for instance, OpenBSD's pf allows you to specify user, I would  
be shocked if iptables hasn't copied that idea.

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Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca