[BBLISA] outbound ports 8080/40443 firewall question

[Paul Beltrani]

On 6/30/05, Eric J. Hansen <ehansen at worldmachine.com> wrote:
> It's a long story, but it has to do with load balancing.
> The main concern is we want to make sure that general end-users won't
> have problems getting to the site through their personal/corporate
> firewalls.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it's not clear to me how using
non-standard ports aids  load balancing.  Would you provide an example
of what it is you would like to do?