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Re: port 443 and security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Kerr)
Thu Sep 14 13:36:55 1995

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 09:54:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Kerr <mkerr@largnet.uwo.ca>
To: "Christopher L. Werner" <cwerner@fh.us.bosch.com>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199509132002.QAA17136@mail.fh.rbus>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Christopher L. Werner wrote:

> Is port 443 used consistently for authentication between server and browser?

> acknowledgement messages back to the client. Is 443 used by more than
> Netscape (is it a proprietary practice or a multi-vendor standard?)?

I would expect it's part of Netscape's "Open Standard"...

Mike.

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