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On Saturday 22 November 2003 15:56, Jorge Almeida wrote:

> > Port 80 will almost certainly be open because someone along the line is
> > trapping port 80 traffic, probably to send it off to a proxy. I do this
> > myself on my home network, and have seen that same behaviour with an ISP
> > I was on.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean port 80 is really closed but appears
> open due to ISP intervention? I have privoxy installed, which uses port
> 8118. Could this be the kind of trapping you mention?

Yes, port 80 is really closed on your box, and is open due to ISP 
intervention. Best way to know for sure is to do a 'netstat -nlp' on your 
machine, and see if any process is listening on port 80.
I'd imagine quite a lot force it's users through a farm of web proxies, no 
doubt saving them an awful lot of bandwidth, and support calls explaining 
what a web proxy is and why they have to use it.
If privoxy is a web proxy which you have to specifically tell your software 
about, then no. The kind of thing we are seeing here is a proxy/cache which 
you aren't supposed to know about, or be able to easily circumvent.

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Mike Williams
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