your firewall defaults are broken, don't use them anymore if this
'firewall' inssts those are the 'defaults'.

Course one can tell you no more becuase the info you gave is so sparse...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne


On Tue, 12 Sep 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> A recent firewall installation at my junior college has broken SSL. In
> troubleshooting the problem, I noted that the default port for mod_ssl
> is 8443, and not the standard 443. When I did the original installation,
> I just accepted the defaults, and everything worked just fine. Now I'm
> being asked why we're not using the default port of 443.
> 
> Can someone explain the differences and why 8443 is the default?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>       Sean
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