How to check whether a port is open at client's network/firewall?

Question

This is solved at last with \"timeout\" attribute of jQuery AJAX (and JSONP). See my own answer !

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Answer 1

You cannot do this in JavaScript because it doesn't have true socket support, with JavaScript you can only test for the presence of HTTP socket. You could use Java (JavaScript is not Java) and write a proper Java Applet to do it.

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