Re: strange Shorewall entry

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:57:45PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 12:24 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Well, I feel a little better seing as its related to HP, but why was it
> > fw2net?
> >
> > I don't know how the internals of browsers work and the download did
> > complete just fine.  Since I was on HP's site, I didn't stop andd read
> > what the link targets were with each download.  Can a link point to a
> > port number and not just a URL and have the browser request a file from
> > a specific port (i.e. not 80 for http or whatever it is for ftp)?
> >
> 
> Yes, e.g. http://www.example.com:8030/
> 
> It could also have been a browser plugin, JavaScript... who knows.

All plug-ins, JavaScript, etc, disabled on my normal Konqueror browser.
I save my Iceweasel in the i386 chroot for that (and flash).

Thanks,

Doug.