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Solution To The Firefox Port Problem
Mads Kristensen
Contributing Writer
2006-10-16
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The built in webserver in Visual Studio 2005, formerly known as Casini, uses a dynamic or static port on the localhost machine (e.g. http://localhost:2049/default.aspx).
It is dynamic by default, but you can make it static if you choose. That works very well except when you try it in Firefox. It simply gives you this response:
This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has cancelled the request for your protection.
It does that by default whenever you use a port other than port 80 - the default website port. It took me a lot of digging to find the solution and here it is.- Open Firefox
- Type about:config in the address field
- Right click anywhere on the screen
- Click new > string
- Enter preference name as: network.security.ports.banned.override
- Enter string value as: 2049 (or whatever port number you want) Who said that all these new security features are a nuisance?
Tag: Firefox
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About the Author:
Mads Kristensen currently works as a Senior Developer at Traceworks located
in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mads graduated from Copenhagen Technical Academy with a multimedia degree in
2003, but has been a professional developer since 2000. His main focus is on ASP.NET but is responsible for Winforms, Windows- and
web services in his daily work as well. A true .NET developer with great passion for the simple solution.
http://www.madskristensen.dk/
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