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

Gotcha !!! I have solved my problem with JSONP and jQuery AJAX call. I discovered the timeout attribute of jQuery AJAX and my code executed fluently when the port was blocked or opened. Here is the solution for future visitors. Thanks to all answerers for contribution.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.7.2-min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <script type"text/javascript">
            var isAccessible = null;
            function checkConnection() {
                var url = "http://101.212.33.60:1935/test/hello.html" ;
                $.ajax({
                    url: url,
                    type: "get",
                    cache: false,
                    dataType: 'jsonp', // it is for supporting crossdomain
                    crossDomain : true,
                    asynchronous : false,
                    jsonpCallback: 'deadCode',
                    timeout : 1500, // set a timeout in milliseconds
                    complete : function(xhr, responseText, thrownError) {
                        if(xhr.status == "200") {
                           isAccessible = true;
                           success(); // yes response came, esecute success()
                        }
                        else {
                           isAccessible = false;
                           failure(); // this will be executed after the request gets timed out due to blockage of ports/connections/IPs
                        }
                    }
               });
            }
            $(document).ready( function() {
                checkConnection(); // here I invoke the checking function
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

I don't think you understand the use cases for JSONP and it's not possible to test open ports with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP

If you want a client side solution it could be possible with websockets, but this is only available on new browsers like chrome or ff. Otherwise request a server side script which does the ping. For example - with a curl script: curl and ping - how to check whether a website is either up or down?


Here is a Java code as an Applet to test server/port connectivity:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class ConnectionTestApplet extends Applet {
    public void start() {
        boolean portAvailable = false;
        int delay = 1000; // 1 s
        try {
            Socket socket = new Socket();
            socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress("server.domain.com", 1935), delay);
            portAvailable = socket.isConnected();
            socket.close();
        } catch (UnknownHostException uhe) {
            uhe.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println("Connection possible: " + portAvailable);
    }
}

You still have to get the information out of the applet to do something else with that result. The easiest way is to redirect the browser thanks to getAppletContext().showDocument(url)

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