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Subject:	Firewalls: www & high port numbers
From:	Doug Bridgens <Doug . Bridgens @ 3Dlabs . com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:31 +0100
To:	"'firewalls @ greatcircle . com'" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>

Hi,
  When browsing the WWW lots of site offer downloadable software.   When
you click on the link to the download you are shoved to a new page at a
high port number (eg. 34200).   When ever a browser tries to go to
download something it just hangs because the firewall is stopping its
communication throught the high port number.   Can anyone tell me what
should be doneto allow downloading software from the web but not open up
every port?

Thanks
Doug

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