Re: MassFS and other problems

In message <672dfddd4d.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 23 Dec 2005 Steve Potts <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In message <b95ceedd4d.Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Stephen Hull <Steve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I've played with the Browse settings to no avail. My setup shows:
>>> Webserve 0.49 Remote Proxy "left blank" Local port "80"
>>
>> Sounds reasonable given the setting below for http. Using port 80
>> (being the 'well known' web server port), means that any browser
>> pointing at 'localhost' will see a web server there. It will also
>> be advertising a Web Server to the outside world if you're not
>> firewalled.
>
>A web server on any port will quickly be discovered by a port scan, so
>its always better to be behind a firewall.

Do I need a firewall on dail up?

>> Also what does Don't Proxy mean? I can't find that either?
>
>Its a list of sites which will be fetched directly instead of via the
>proxy server.

That makes sense, thanks.

>> One thing slightly nagging at me is that you've quoted FTP as using
>> Port 80 in both Browse and Oregano settings as well as HTTP. I
>> don't know whether that is valid. Could there be some kind of
>> conflict with two services using the same port???
>
>Its not valid if using WebServe as it only proxies http and not ftp.

Again, Thanks.

>> As I say, I can't find a reference in Browse to FTP and I don't use
>> Oregano, so I can't follow quite what you've got set up there, but TBH I
>> fear I can't add anything to what you've got.
>
>Oregano1 offers options for Proxying both http and ftp, maybe there is some
>confusion? In fact O1 doesn't support ftp itself, but it will use the URL
>launch mechanism to cause a suitable application such as !FTPc to open the
>site.
>
>---druck

That's cleared up that little mystery, thanks Druck.

Regards,

Steve.


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