On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:52:29PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > This is intentional, and doesn't happen in general. They just have a > blacklist of ports that are commonly in use, to prevent firefox from > being a platform to launch attacks against those common > protocols. Port 6000 is used for the X protocol. See > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html. You can use > the network.security.ports.banned.override pref to reenable it.
OK, thanks! It would be useful to give this information and an exact recipe what to do in /usr/share/doc/firefox/README.Debian. My English is not very good, but I give it a try: To prevent Firefox from being used to launch attacks against other protocols, certain ports cannot be connected to by default. See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html for further information. To allow the port numbers being used, add the following line to /usr/share/firefox/greprefs/all.js or ~/.firefox/default/<random>.slt/user.js: pref("network.security.ports.banned.override", "2049,4045,6000"); -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
