Thank you Scott for your points. As a matter of fact my experience was some years old.
I just tried several downloads from port 80, they do not seem to interfere so much with the other ongoing HTTP activity. So I changed the HTTP download port 7777 back to 80 default. Hope this helps some users. Giovanni ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Klement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [Easy400Group] Re: Problem Downloading Files from easy400.net > >> - I do not want a lot of people performing download through port 80. >> When this happens, almost no body has a chance to get through port 80 for >> normal HTTP operations on the Easy400 site: response time would be awful. >> - This is why HTTP download is performed via an alternate port, number >> 7777. > > Why would that be? Why should it matter if you use port 80 or port 7777? > They're taking the same routes through the same machines. I don't see why > the port number would impact how much you slow down other things. > > In fact, I'd think that using a separate HTTP server instance on port 7777 > would make performance slightly slower rather than faster. But the > difference would be very slight. > > If the Easy400 stuff is actually open source, you might consider hosting > the downloads on SourceForge.net, they'll put it on mirrors all over the > world, and then you won't have this problem. > >> Problem is that many companies did install a proxy solution from IBM >> pSeries. Their IBM (stupid?) packake does not allow HTTP responses other >> than port 80. > > There may be an IBM product that has this problem, however, there are lots > of reasons why people would have problems with port 7777. Many companies > lock down every single port, and only make exceptions for the ones that > they know their employees need. If employees only need web access, they > might only allow port 80 and nothing else. > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/wbFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Easy400Group/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
