> So what you're saying is that since incompetent firewall admins have blocked all applications except the web and no amount of reason can convince them to do o

> So what you're saying is that since incompetent firewall admins have blocked all applications except the web and no amount of reason can convince them to do otherwise, all applications of the future should be tunnelled through HTTP. The product I work with has some protocols that is non-http. Some of our customers are complaining to us because _their_ users can't get through their own firewall (i.e the users own firewall, not our customers firewall). These users are often on corporate networks, and to get the users to convince their employer to fix their firewall is likely a waste of energy. In fact our customers may consider to switch to another vendor if we don't change to a HTTP based protocol. Of cause the same firewall administrators may introduce deep packet inspection to only allow real web traffic later, creating more problems, but as someone delivering third party solutions now, you are forced to use HTTP or HTTPS.