Re: FW: Re: non-standard ports

Sounds like you've hit a firewall.

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Ken Piotto wrote:

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