[5041] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Security issues in Apache?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horacio_J=2E_Pe=F1a)
Sat Apr 12 19:10:43 1997
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:13:37 -0300 (ARST)
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horacio_J=2E_Pe=F1a?= <horape@hobbit.compendium.com.ar>
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
Hola!
> I know it may be out of topic, but I've been seeing some discussion about
> ports... so I'd like to ask you guys something about this...
> 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 hos=
t
> tell the browser what port to connect? how does it work? Could someone
> tell me?
The URL tells you what port should connect to. If it is something as
http://www.pepito.com:8080, the ":8080" says that the connection should be
maden to the port 8080. If it isn't the default for the "http:" is the
port 80.
> TIA
> Antonio Paulo Salgado Forster =20
> Operacoes em Redes - RNP
=09=09=09=09Horacio J. Pe=F1a
Pero no vull que els teus ulls plorin:
digue'm ad=E9u.
El cam=ED fa pujada
i me'n vaig a peu.
