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Key: GWMON-18
Type: Improvement Improvement
Status: Open Open
Priority: Standard Standard
Assignee: Webmaster
Reporter: Tony Su
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Not the GWK project itself, but this bug-tracking website is configured with port 8080

Created: 26/Oct/07 01:44 PM   Updated: Tuesday 10:36 AM
Component/s: Other
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Original Estimate: 1 hour Remaining Estimate: 1 hour Time Spent: Unknown
Environment: Not Applicable


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Whoever set up this bug tracking website selected a very unfortunate port number (8080). This port number is commonly used by proxy firewalls (and also port 8000) to force users on a network to use the Proxy when connecting to a port 80 site on the Internet. The problem of course is that if a User behind a proxy firewall enters the address to this bug reporting site, the traffic will be directed to port 80 instead because the firewall will <expect> traffic on port 8080. I'm not sure why this site is not deployed on port 80 or configured with SSL to be secure, but deploying on a non-default port is next to ineffective considering today's exploits which know how to "find" services on non-default ports.

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