[PRR-talk] Web Site Compatability Test

[Jerry Britton]

This is for the long-term plan here at Desktop Solutions. Without  
getting into the technical side...

Would you please click on

	http://www.dsop.com:8080

(Do not confuse this with http://www.dsop.com, which uses the default  
port, port 80.)

Do you see a web page with a message that it is a "port 8080 test  
page"? If so, good!

If you get a local firewall error (Windows Firewall, MacOS Firewall,  
Symantec, etc.), that is also bearable as you have control over it.  
No need to do anything at this time.

On the other hand, if you don't get to the page and your browser just  
"hangs", it probably means your corporate or ISP firewall is blocking  
port 8080. Port 8080 is an industry standard "alternate port" for web  
traffic. If you are blocked in this manner, please e-mail me (off  
list) and say so. Let me know what domain (ISP, company) you connect  
through. NO, I will not be contacting them, so you needn't worry if  
you surf at work! But if you use a web-based mail service it won't  
provide the info I need.

I am trying to get a feel for compatibility with port 8080 for web  
traffic. Thanks!

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FOR THE TECHNICALLY MINDED:

Over a period of weeks, not starting yet, I will be migrating my web  
sites from an old 400MHz system running a legacy web server app to a  
reasonably new system running Apache. It will be a lot faster and  
will have a lot of new bells and whistles. Included will be a web  
interface for list management, offering lots of options to  
subscribers that are currently not available.

However, my firewall does port redirection to allow outside users to  
navigate my NAT. I can only redirect a particular port to one  
internal system. So port 80 HTTP traffic can only go to one server,  
either the old one or the new one. So as I move sites one by one,  
which requires programming time, I'll need to have one server using  
port 80 and the other using an alternate port, such as 8080.

When it is all said and done, everything will be on port 80, except  
SSL traffic which will always be on port 443.

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Jerry Britton
CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+
Microsoft MCP, MCDST, MCSA: Security, MCSE: Security