JTK wrote:

> Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>>"Access to the port number given has been disabled for security reasons"

> The problem is that a malicious, invalid URL can be given to Mozilla,
> and Mozilla will pass it *unchecked* to lower levels.


Huh?
The problem are not invalid URLs, they are _valid_ URLs; for example, in 
  POST Data. This could, would Mozilla not block these ports, for 
example be used to send email from the user's IP by posting form data to 
a SMTP Server.

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