Port 8080

[turtle]

Is their any reason not to use some other port besides 8080..maybe 80. For some reason 80 seems to load quicker.

[Siamesecat]

Port 80 is the regular HTTP port. One needs to use another port for the proxy. You could set it to use a different port such as 8000, but not 80.

[JJoe]

(Oct. 21, 2010 10:55 PM)turtle Wrote:  Is their any reason not to use some other port besides 8080..maybe 80. For some reason 80 seems to load quicker.

I don't have a good reason to not use what works but I usually see a higher number. I think lower numbers are often randomly assigned. It may be that setting a lower number might cause problems. But I don't know.


Configuring the browser to use a local proxy on the local port 80 should not interfere with the remote port 80.