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I'm not a technical guy, but I always curious about technology.
I read a lot, from many online sources, but as a non-technical guy,
there are things that get me very confused. I guess I am not smart at
all.
For example, I know that the Web Browsers, be it Internet Explorer or
FireFox or Safari, all use port 80 for web browsing.
I guess part of the reason they do that is because it's the common
standard, and part (as I read the materials from many online sources)
is because of security.
But I still want to know, as a user, can I change my browser so that
I'd use, let's say, port 3863, to browse, instead of the default port
80? (That is assuming port 3863 isn't reserved for any other
purposes.)
If the answer to the above is a "Yes", then I would like to know
further. Such as --
Let's say I change my browser so that it uses port 3863 instead of
port 80. Can I still successfully uses it to browse websites as usual?
But before that, how to make my browser, - let's say I am using
Internet Explorer, version 7, - how to get IE7 to use port 3863
instead of port 80, for browsing purposes?
Would changing from port 80 to port 3863 poses any security risk?
Is there anywhere online that I can get more information regarding
questions such as these?
I've tried to find the answer. Unfortunately, most of the sites assume
that their visitors are already technicaly savvy, unfortunately for a
dumb person like me, the more I read their articles, the more blur I
get.
I think what I mean is, is there any down_to_earth place online that
give dimwits such as yours truly a very basic idea of what is a port,
how to change port, how to forward port, how to change browser
configuration, et cetera ....
If you happen to know of such places, would you kindly share it with
this dumb fella, will ya, please?
Thank you !!
I read a lot, from many online sources, but as a non-technical guy,
there are things that get me very confused. I guess I am not smart at
all.
For example, I know that the Web Browsers, be it Internet Explorer or
FireFox or Safari, all use port 80 for web browsing.
I guess part of the reason they do that is because it's the common
standard, and part (as I read the materials from many online sources)
is because of security.
But I still want to know, as a user, can I change my browser so that
I'd use, let's say, port 3863, to browse, instead of the default port
80? (That is assuming port 3863 isn't reserved for any other
purposes.)
If the answer to the above is a "Yes", then I would like to know
further. Such as --
Let's say I change my browser so that it uses port 3863 instead of
port 80. Can I still successfully uses it to browse websites as usual?
But before that, how to make my browser, - let's say I am using
Internet Explorer, version 7, - how to get IE7 to use port 3863
instead of port 80, for browsing purposes?
Would changing from port 80 to port 3863 poses any security risk?
Is there anywhere online that I can get more information regarding
questions such as these?
I've tried to find the answer. Unfortunately, most of the sites assume
that their visitors are already technicaly savvy, unfortunately for a
dumb person like me, the more I read their articles, the more blur I
get.
I think what I mean is, is there any down_to_earth place online that
give dimwits such as yours truly a very basic idea of what is a port,
how to change port, how to forward port, how to change browser
configuration, et cetera ....
If you happen to know of such places, would you kindly share it with
this dumb fella, will ya, please?
Thank you !!