[ee122] Token failures; Command line arguments; Server to client data

Nescio Nomen nescionomen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 16:29:39 PDT 2007


But the specs say we should connect to port 80 by default.  Did I
misunderstand something?

On 9/25/07, Vern Paxson <vern at icir.org> wrote:
>
> > Part B:  OPTIONALLY specify the port on the command line:  http_server
> <port>
> >               DEFAULT to port 80 for the server.
>
> A nit here: on most systems, a process is not allowed to bind to ports <
> 1024
> unless it is privileged, so if there's a default port it should be
> something
> in the ephemeral range, say 7788.
>
>                 Vern
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