No, that's not true.

In Unix, you need root to act as a server on a port below 1024.

Connecting to an external server as a client does not require root, even for such ports.

HTTP 401 means you need to supply credentials to the web server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_Client_Error

-- Kostya

20.07.2011 1:08, Mark S. пишет:

Someone suggested that an app needs root permissions to access port 80, but
I could not find any confirmation on this?

--
Kostya Vasilyev

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