We need to block all the ports. Lets keep minimal number of holes in the Firewall.
Only SMTP and HTTP will be open.

Dude in that location we have all our socket clients blocked. We need to recode a significant part of the protocol
on HTTP. Lets use SOAP.

What an awful waste.
Whoever told them that blocking ports gives safety. If it was not so costly or expensive it would have been downright
funny. They gave you more than 65000 ports to use for your applications, you blocked them all to open one(or 2-10)
only to need an application firewall for scanning malicious exploits on HTTP.

Well then we need jobs too so why not create a few. Create more than 65000 ports, block them all except one,
use SOAP to write applications.