[5020] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Security issues in Apache?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark G. Scheuern)
Thu Apr 10 14:20:13 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:42:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mark G. Scheuern" <mgscheue@Oakland.edu>
To: Antonio Paulo Salgado Forster <forster@hq.rnp.br>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970410084230.16318A-100000@colibri.hq.rnp.br>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Antonio Paulo Salgado Forster wrote:
> how does the browser know the port number? I thought when the browser is
> going to send a request to some host xxx.yyy.zz, it would try a connetion
> to that host on some specified port, but that doesnt happen..Does the host
> tell the browser what port to connect? how does it work? Could someone
> tell me?
The default HTTP port is 80, otherwise the port number needs to be
specified in the URL. e.g., http://www.abc.com:8080
Mark
