http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/skype-stop-it/ Programming and Life Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:01:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/skype-stop-it/comment-page-1/#comment-108409 Lewis Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:42:39 +0000 http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/?p=249#comment-108409 Actually, what they did was IMO a good decision. From what I've read, it uses port 80 to play nicely with firewalls and attempt to make Skype as easy to use as possible. Although I think they should have used the HTTPS port as it's very very very rare you'll get someone using HTTPS on their local Apache. Or they should check for things registered to port 80 and automatically prompt for a different port. Actually, what they did was IMO a good decision. From what I’ve read, it uses port 80 to play nicely with firewalls and attempt to make Skype as easy to use as possible. Although I think they should have used the HTTPS port as it’s very very very rare you’ll get someone using HTTPS on their local Apache. Or they should check for things registered to port 80 and automatically prompt for a different port.

]]> http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/archives/skype-stop-it/comment-page-1/#comment-106471 Eran Galperin Sat, 24 May 2008 18:32:08 +0000 http://www.jeremyprivett.com/blog/?p=249#comment-106471 Yep, it took me a while to understand why suddenly apache is misbehaving. This is the kind of thing that makes me swear off certain products for all eternity. Yep, it took me a while to understand why suddenly apache is misbehaving. This is the kind of thing that makes me swear off certain products for all eternity.

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