Re: What's port 8081 doing ?

Micha <[email protected]> writes:

> I don't really understand this 8081 thing. It's localhost:8080/control 
> for the webinterface, and i can't see any port 8081 logged by the firewall 
> for whatever control action i tried.
> The problem is that my firewall explicitly excempts any local connections
> from logging, because i didn't want to clutter the logs with that, and the 
> idea to track my own servers is something new for me :)
> Please excuse i don't want to fiddle with the iptables right now, just to
> test wwwoffle. I may try another day.
> 
> So, what for is 8081 used ?

Port 8081 is the control port that is used by the wwwoffle program
when you command the WWWOFFLE server.  For example when you use the
command 'wwwoffle -online' or 'wwwoffle -fetch' the wwwoffle program
will communicate with the server using port 8081.

-- 
Andrew.
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