But the specs say we should connect to port 80 by default. Did I misunderstand something?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vern Paxson</b> <<a href="mailto:vern@icir.org">vern@icir.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Part B: OPTIONALLY specify the port on the command line: http_server <port>
<br>> DEFAULT to port 80 for the server.<br><br>A nit here: on most systems, a process is not allowed to bind to ports < 1024<br>unless it is privileged, so if there's a default port it should be something
<br>in the ephemeral range, say 7788.<br><br> Vern<br>_______________________________________________<br>ee122 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ee122@mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU">ee122@mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
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