June 2010
3 posts
List of blocked ports in Safari
One of my colleagues likes to use port 6667 for his development environment. As in, when he tests his code, he connects to a url like https://dev.example.org:6667/
He recently noticed that Safari and Google Chrome restrict access to that port. Apparently when you allow a browser to connect to arbitrary ports, an attacker can craft a form that will submit arbitrary data to any port. I mean, duh,...