Sunday, February 01, 1998

Are you a Frontier newbie? Great! Ask your questions on the Frontier-newbies list. No question is too basic on this list.

What's going on here?

Daniel Salber's ScriptBits site. "Software updates for the scripting community. No gossip, no comments, no rumors, just the goodies!"

I've seen a RFC that suggests how to assign TCP/IP ports. For example, port 80 is the usual port for HTTP. Question: Does anyone have a pointer to the RFC?

Answer: IANA takes care of this. Here's the spec for port numbers. I needed this info in putting together a cribsheet for setting up Frontier 5 as a HTTP server.

Check this out -- IANA also has a CGI that allows you to register new ports. Wow.

PS: RFC stands for Request For Comment. The Internet is at least partially defined by this collection of documents. It's a very polite thing. I have an idea. Do you have any comments? After a while, the comments stop, and the RFC doc becomes the way everyone does it. It's one of the coolest things about the Internet.

Random note: I wish Windows had Geneva 12 and 9!

Dreams come true, sometimes.

SJ Merc: Programming on a 38-foot boat.