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Conference gyro::internet_toolss

Title:Internet Tools
Notice:Report ALL NETSCAPE Problems directly to [email protected].rnet? Read note 448.L for beginner information.
Moderator:teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer
Created:Fri Jun 25 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4714
Total number of notes:40609

4418.0. "Updated URL for OpenVMS Netscape Release Notes?" by IOSG::PYE (Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice) Mon Jan 27 1997 04:47

    This is probably not the right conference, for which I apologise in
    advance!
    
    A customer in thge US DECUS (external) notes file is complaining that
    the URL for the Release Notes in the Internet Product Suite doesn't
    work:
    
    	http://www.openvms.digital.com:88/netscape/help/docs/rn_ovms20.html
    
    And he's right! At first he thought that the port:88 was the problem,
    but it appears that the URL is just no longer valid. Can anyone help me
    with the updated location?
    
    Also, as a background question, it would be nice to know why port 88 is
    used, since that seemed to cause concern to other users whose firewalls
    didn't like it.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Graham
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4418.1.html -> .htmSTAR::WALDMon Jan 27 1997 09:1615
    It doesn't work because that's the wrong URL.  The correct URL is:
    
    http://www.openvms.digital.com:88/netscape/help/docs/rn_ovms20.htm
    
    Note that the file extension is .htm, not .html.  The documentation 
    on both the IPS V1.0 and V1.1 CDs point to the correct URL, so I 
    suspect that operator error is involved.
    
    On another note, any organization that limits web access based on 
    connecting to port 80 is going to find their web-browsing abilities
    severely limited.  This probably means that they are trying to use
    filtered routing to provide web access, which is the wrong way to go.
    A web proxy server would be a much better solution.
    
    Hans.
4418.2Why Port 88 anyway?IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeTue Jan 28 1997 04:377
    Thanks, I'll pass that on.
    
    But in the general case, why *do* we use different port numbers? Is it
    to spread the load across more than one server?
    
    If I could give the customer a good reason, I think it would help calm
    him down :-)
4418.3STAR::BLAKEOpenVMS EngineeringTue Jan 28 1997 12:416
>    But in the general case, why *do* we use different port numbers? Is it
>    to spread the load across more than one server?

We use a different server.

Colin.
4418.4Netscape for VMS v6.1 - Need KitGROOVE::DADDIECOThat's Just The Way It Is .....Wed Jan 29 1997 11:225
    Can someone post the network address of the latest Netscape Kit for a
    VMS V6.1 system? 
    
    thanx ... Dan
4418.5STAR::BLAKEOpenVMS EngineeringWed Jan 29 1997 23:124
    Go to www.openvms.digital.com. From there you can find the released
    version (V2.02) and the current beta of 3.0 Gold.
    
    Colin.