Thanks Jeffery,

>In this case what is probably happening is you try to connect to port 80
>http on that web server and the webserver replies back to your source port
>with a redirect to 8080.  Your browser then re-establishes a new connection
>out to port 8080.  This would work fine.
What I wonder is that if the webserver redirect to 8080(diff from the
original trying to 80),why stateful inspection firewall could let these
kinds of traffic in after checked its state table and then to re-establishes
a new connection?

Best Regards,
Yale
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