Thursday, August 15, 2002

ZoneAlarm Doesn't Trust Radio Radio is not real well-behaved with regard to firewalls.  Using ZoneAlarm, I've found that the firewall stops a number of different messages from going out from Radio, including POP3 connections for Mail-To-Weblog, syndication requests to subscribed sites, etc.  ZoneAlarm doesn't list the originating application for these requests, so I can't give them permission easily.  Basically, because Radio does so many different kinds of requests, strict firewalls are worried about it. I'm behind a router, so I'm not in too much danger when I don't run ZoneAlarm, but it seems like there needs to be a way to automatically configure ZoneAlarm to accept Radio communications... somehow. The POP3 blocking is why I've had problems with the Mail-to-Weblog feature.  Ugh. 7:12:01 PM