Yes, the port option often happens. For example, if I go to Safari and
open my most recent PAW, this is what the URL works out to:
http://www.fotocycle.dk:80/paws/?page_id=271
Note the 80.
If I do the same in Firefox, I get this:
http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=271
So no port 80. The link works fine either way.
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On Jul 26, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Thanks Carlos. I've never seen the port option.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Carlos J. Santisteban wrote:
>> Hi Chuck, Michael and all,
>>
>>
>>> From: Michael Collins <MRC.OlympusList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> On 7/23/09 6:05 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>> ...any reference to anything as a valid prefix for "www".
>>> In fact "www" is just a convention to indicate a Web server
>>> hostname rather
>>> than some other type of server; it's in no way a requirement or
>>> part of a
>>> formal specification.
>>
>>
>> That's right, there's no need to have "www" in the URL -- my own
>> domain (
>> cjss.sytes.net) doesn't even have it!
>>
>> Now, talking about spoofs... I think it's never a bad idea to
>> remind how to
>> detect some classic spoofs: the important thing is to check the END
>> of the
>> domain name, that is, the .com / .net / .org / .co.uk [or whatever]
>> part --
>> what we IT people call "top level domain". It MUST be followed by a
>> 'forward' slash IMMEDIATELY*
>>
>> OTOH, if we see (imaginary example) something like:
>>
>> https://www.paypal.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [...]
>>
>> (Note the '@' inside) it MAY look like a legit URL, but in no way!
>> It will
>> go to a server named "cgi-bin.webscr.ru" -- the "www.paypal.com"
>> part will
>> be ignored, treated just as an "username". That's a real scam!
>>
>> *) The only exception to this rule is that we may find the "port"
>> between
>> the domain name and the slash -- that's a colon followed by a
>> number, most
>> likely 80 or 8080, like this:
>>
>> https://www.paypal.com:8080/cgi-bin [...]
>>
>> Cheers,
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