[BBLISA] outbound ports 8080/40443 firewall question

[miah]

Why do you want to run these things on nonstandard ports?  What is the 
goal to this?

-miah

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:39:15PM -0400, Eric J. Hansen wrote:
> We're looking at setting up a special website on alternate TCP ports
> such as 8080 and 40443 (i.e., http://www.mysite.com:8080).  This would be
> accessible by the Internet at large, and ideally as many end users as
> possible. My question to the group has to do with corporate and/or personal
> firewalls -- namely, do you think these (or similar non-standard) ports are
> likely to be blocked so end users can't browse to these URL's?
> 
> I looked through some docs about the Microsoft XP personal firewall as
> well as ZoneAlarm, but couldn't find a definitive list of what outbound
> TCP ports would be allowed (not cause an alert/pop-up.)
> 
> thanks
> Eric
> 
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