Hoping one of you knowledgable people can help.

Although it's not specifically a XP config question,
I have a tiny webcam server puching some controls
via a "web page", locally, on 192.168.0.1 port 83

If I enter > 192.168.0.1:83 it appears that the autocomplete (?)
function of IE6 does not either complete or connect. Either way,
I get a "page not found". But if I http://192.168.0.1:83, it will connect
and display properly. It seems that the act of " :83 " is sufficient to
confuse the poor beast. As an aside, if I set the server port to a
"standard" 80, just typing in the 192.168.0.1 for the address allows
"standard" completion ( http://192.168.0.1/)

This behaviour does not occur in Mozilla, Firefox or Opera because
an entered "192.168.0.1: 83" will find the page - no hassles.
Is there an article or guide for me to follow this up ?
Thanks.

Not sure if this is so, but maybe it's because IE is just refusing to
"assume" what kind of protocol you intend to use since you are not using a
default port for any specific protocol with your webcam server? I think it
is customary that there are 2 default ports for using the http protocol
which would be, :80 and :8080

mark


"Bazza" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hoping one of you knowledgable people can help.
>
> Although it's not specifically a XP config question,
> I have a tiny webcam server puching some controls
> via a "web page", locally, on 192.168.0.1 port 83
>
> If I enter > 192.168.0.1:83 it appears that the autocomplete (?)
> function of IE6 does not either complete or connect. Either way,
> I get a "page not found". But if I http://192.168.0.1:83, it will connect
> and display properly. It seems that the act of " :83 " is sufficient to
> confuse the poor beast. As an aside, if I set the server port to a
> "standard" 80, just typing in the 192.168.0.1 for the address allows
> "standard" completion ( http://192.168.0.1/)
>
> This behaviour does not occur in Mozilla, Firefox or Opera because
> an entered "192.168.0.1: 83" will find the page - no hassles.
> Is there an article or guide for me to follow this up ?
> Thanks.