2008/7/10 Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:10:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> The range you've chosen is in the reserved range, so unless you're root
>> (or have the appropriate privilege), the networking stack will prevent
>> you from binding to those sockets.
>
> Yeah, but why is Firefox being so snooty about letting you connect to a
> low port that isn't 80?  There's probably some way of turning it off, but
> it seems like a next-to-useless protection.

I'd tend to agree. However, it might bear noting in the documentation.

I don't think I'd want to change the depot to prevent you from using
them though given reverse proxy or other possible custom
configurations.

-- 
Shawn Walker
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