FW: Re: non-standard ports

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:11:23 +0000 Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>At 10:00 14.11.97 EST, Ken Piotto wrote:
>>How does squid handle http requests to
>>non-standard ports? Maybe a better question is, does anyone know what
needs
>>to be configured to allow non-standard port requests? I've tried http-gw
>>spawned from inetd but I think may be confusing squid right now. Sorry if
>>this is a FAQ.
>
>My Squid handles non-standard ports just fine. I didn't configure anything
>for that. I have entered the Squid machine and port as HTTP proxy in the
>browser, and when I type in an URL of the form http://host:port/ it just
>works. What happens at your place when you try that?
>

Unfortunately it simply doesn't work. Standard requests to port 80 works
fine but http://host:port just sits there and does nothing. Netscape says
"host contacted, waiting for reply" but the socket connection never gets
established.

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Ken Piotto
Bell Solutions
krp@bellglobal.com
11/14/97
10:30:58

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Received on Fri Nov 14 1997 - 06:46:02 MST