Port 80 still blocked for @Home users?

Thomas Mondoshawan Tate plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:40:33 -0700


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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:15:13PM -0700, Digital Wokan wrote:
> While not an overly problematic thing memory and processor-wise for most
> "family" sites running on @Home subscriber systems, it does bring up the
> problem of linking to outside files such as images.  You end up with
> some browsers asking for permission to mix secure and non-secure content
> and others just outright refusing to display the non-secure items.

Since I'm going to be moving away from .az to .va and my ISP there is
questionable, one question comes to mind: do web browsers automaticially
attempt to connect to port 8080 implicitly? (ex: if I specify
http://tank.dyndns.org, will it try tank.dyndns.org:8080 after trying :80?)

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
http://tank.dyndns.org

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