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Thank You Helpful Software!

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I was trying to browse the web with my morning coffee at my favorite
bagel shop the other day.  Apparently it was the first time I had been
there after doing a full update on my laptop FreeBSD install.

The network is unprotected but has a signup screen that you have to hit
before you are let through to the Internet.  It's always been a little
hinky for FBSD/Firefox, and at some point I observed the traffic for
a working hit to the logon screen and made a little html file of it
in those cases where Firefox would miss automatically detecting the
sign-on.

Sure enough, firefox missed the portal, but unexpectedly, when I used
the link I had saved for it (which goes to port 10080), I got:

	This address is restricted

	This address uses a network port which is normally used for
	purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the
	request for your protection.

No option to accept a warning and continue or anything like that.
Of course since I couldn't hit the Internet, I couldn't google a
solution.  I finally had to do some ssh to localhost with port mapping.

Once on, I found the preference 

	network.security.ports.banned.override

easily enough.  But *really*!?  If my url has a port in it, that's the
port I want to use!

Thanks Mozilla.
-- 
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

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Thank You Helpful Software! ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2021-07-11 17:34 +0000
  Re: Thank You Helpful Software! Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-07-11 18:44 +0100
    Re: Thank You Helpful Software! ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2021-07-11 17:49 +0000
      Re: Thank You Helpful Software! Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-07-11 11:23 -0700
        Re: Thank You Helpful Software! Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-07-11 19:33 +0100
          Re: Thank You Helpful Software! Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-07-11 20:33 +0100
        Re: Thank You Helpful Software! 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> - 2021-07-12 04:33 -0500

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