Better error message for POST to restricted ports

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Wed Aug 21 12:37:08 BST 2002


On Mit, 21 Aug 2002, Molkentin, Daniel wrote:

> The motivation to allow POST on restricted ports is the some intranets went to 
> port like 1080 as intranet server port to prevent their M$ environment from 
> well know viruses.

ROTFL. Thats fun because port 1080 is one of the most often scanned ports 
these days. 

> The attached patch adds a new error code and message for that case. Please 
> review.

"for security reasons" ?

What about "Access to restricted port in POST denied". 


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Dirk (received 444 mails today)




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