Optimum Online & Port 80 Block

[Keith Elkin]

Does anyone know if there is any creative way around the port 80 block on
OOL? I had asked a while back but I was hoping maybe something new came up.
I played around with register.com's forwarding service to make people get
redirected to my domain with :81, and ran my websites on port 81, but the
only problem is I depend on host headers since I'm running 3 different
sites.. and it doesn't seem like they get forwarded once you hit
register.com's forwarding service..

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[James Knott]

What happens if you use that service to get to your allowed web page at
your ISP, and have a link from there to your server?

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[Keith Elkin]

They don't have an allowed web service, they don't even host any web space
for users. (And the service agreement says you can't run your own either)

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[David Levine]

So can't you use 3 different ports to redirect to, 1 for each site? Seems
from your post that you can redirect to a specific port with register.com if
I understood what you wrote.

Let's say you have the following:
www.site1.com, www.site2.com & www.site3.com

Have your machine (though it's against the TOS of OptOnline to run a
commercial web server but we're just talking technical here) setup to handle
1 site on port 81, 1 on port 82 and 1 on port 83

Then redirected www.site1.com to 81, www.site2.com to 82 and www.site3.com
to 83. Most web servers allow you to do this.

Let me know how you make out.

David

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[James Knott]

That sucks. On Rogers, you get 7 e-mail addresses, each with 10 MB of
web space.

[David Levine]

It might suck to you, but off the http://bos.speakeasy.net speed test site I
get 8400+ down and 940 up speeds (about 169 times faster then 56k modem).
That's why I have OOL. I can always find free web space!

David

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[Paul Bassi]

How did you make out on this?
I am having similar problems and when I switch ports, I still can't
get in. I am starting to wonder if they are somehow blocking incoming
HTTP traffic.
Any idea?

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[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

In article <afda6c4.01102...@posting.google.com>, pba...@setauketsoftware.com (Paul Bassi) writes:
>How did you make out on this?
>I am having similar problems and when I switch ports, I still can't
>get in. I am starting to wonder if they are somehow blocking incoming
>HTTP traffic.
>Any idea?

Perhaps you screwed something up? What port number are you attempting
to use?

I can access a bit of software I wrote and sell which speaks HTTP on a
different port (port 2798). It responds fine to a remote browser over
OOL.

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[Keith Elkin]

I really haven't done anything about it. The free forwarding from
register.com inserts a stupid frame with their ads in it, so I refuse to use
it.

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