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How can I find out what outbound ports are open?

Is there a way to find out what outbound ports are open through the firewall at my office?  I know port 80 is open, but port 8080 appears to be closed.  
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Presumably you think that because some site that you need access to is using 8080 instead of 80 for its web services.  So you should be able to report the fact that you can't reach that site to your IT dept folks, who can adjust the firewall settings to enable it.

Unless, of course, accessing that site violates your employer's policies.  In that case, access it from home, not work.

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If your office lan is protected with a firewall, maybe there is some access policy from inside.If you are test the permited protocols through firewall by using, for example a PortScan or by test connections with a program like putty, it is sure that your "guardians" will detect you! ;-) So ... think well before ... or you can lose your job.
It is a different situation if you are a "client" and a 3rd party are installed for your office a firewall, and you want just ...to test the protection.
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Have a nice day .
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This is for a client who is trying to view streaming media on another client's site.  I've already contacted the Network Admin and he's enabled 8080, but I was asking the question for future reference.  Thanks for the help.
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