Port 80 still blocked for @Home users?

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:24:32 -0700


No

George


Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> 
> 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?)
> 
> --
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
> phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
> http://tank.dyndns.org
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