Gervase Markham wrote:
> That blocking we did of certain ports (1080, etc.) to stop Mozilla
> connecting to them is breaking people's sites. See several recent posts
> in n.p.m.general and security.
>
> Can we revisit this issue?
>
> Gerv
>
Interestingly, something came up today on bugtraq about this. Apparently
you can send smtp e-mail by pointing a form submission at
http://smtp.mail.blah:25 and including the appropriate smtp commands.
This is about all web browsers and not moz specific
See http://www.remote.org/jochen/sec/hfpa/index.html
Also on bugtraq in response to this issue, port blocking in moz can be
circumvented by adding 65536 to the target port e.g. 21+65536 = 65557.
(I haven't tested this myself)
David
