----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 1:38 PM Subject: [REBOL] Is it possible to obtain IP address of incoming connection? Re:(5) > Hi Petr, > > port-id is the port number of the TCP connection... eg, port=80 for http, > etc. While conventions exist for all the low numbered ports, you can > generally use higher numbered ones for your own applications w/o difficulty. > Just have to make sure they're unique on the two machines that are in > communication... and that they pass through any firewalls appropriately. > What it's "good for" is that the same pair of IP's can have many TCP > connections open for differet purposes at the same time. And so people know > in advance what the typical port is for certain purposes... FTP, POP, SMTP, > HTTP, etc. I wish i could tell that to the folks at demon.com in Britain, i got so tired of getting 50 hits on assorted ports *every* time i went to a page they host, i firewalled the entire isp on incoming other than port 80, but they do occasionally legitimately use other high numbered ports to reply to an http request, so i sometimes do not get a entire web page. Kat
