Date   : Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:34:04 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Master ethernet upgrade

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> F=OPENOUT("-http-sprow.co.uk:80") shirley?
              ^^^^^^
Why? Specifying port 80 implies you'll be using HTTP [*], giving a port
allows for more flexibility for odd servers (8080 anyone?), plus it does
actually matter about the protocol as you'll probably be doing that
yourself, thus the port is the important part.


After all:
   telnet sprow.co.uk 80
will work, if you then type in the commands by hand. I do it like this
from time to time on the mailserver. :-0


Best wishes,

Rick.


* - under XP(alike):
       \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\services
     under RISC OS I forget, but something like:
       !Boot.Resources.!Internet.conf.services
     it is the 'standard' IANA lookup for which port means which service,
     like http=80, pop3=110, nntp=119 and so on.

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