Re: how to universally source files

comp.lang.tcl wrote:
Bryan Oakley wrote:
Cameron Laird wrote:
I'm quite curious about the illegality of Web service
in Virginia; while it's been a year since I was there,
I certainly ran Web servers in cable-equipped buildings,
and was planning to do so again.
My guess is, his broadband terms of service prohibit "running a web
server", the spirit of which is to not run it on an open port and chew
up a bunch of bandwidth. I can't imagine a scenario where it would be
illegal to run one on a port only open to the local machine (though,
this wouldn't be the first time I was surprised by the practices of a
cable monopoly).


Yep we have Cox here as our sole cable provider in our area of
Virginia.

Per these links

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/469092836/m/5540962155

and

http://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp/contentredirect.asp?sprt_cid=643ad749-1a58-4824-9d1c-8cd5579e132a

Port 80 is blocked (I used to have Apache on my machine and pointed it
to port 8080, until that got blocked and then to 8081, until my machine
caught some nasty viruses and I had to uninstall Apache altogether.

The port blocking only affects incoming and outgoing connections. If the web server and the browser are on the same machine (or even the same subnet) cox can block all the ports they want and you'll be fine.

I used to have cox and had at any one time two or three web servers running on my lan. My wireless router had one, my ipcop box had one, sometimes my mac or windows box would have one depending on what I was doing. Whatever cox did had no effect on my own internal lan.

Of course, do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

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