[Xitami] Windows client: opening non-standard ports

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20030626083719.02332ec0@verfaillie4.verfaillie.local>
   Marc Doigny writes:

> On any computer, if i type web.verfaillie.com:119 the connection can't be 
> made, since the browser expects a NEWS response of some sort.
> If i type http://web.verfaillie.com:119 the connection is made, because the 
> browser expects a HTTP response.
> The problem is the latest version of IE (the version you can download and 
> that's included with XP).
> It does tot allow http connections over a news port.

Have you thought of reporting this as a bug to M$?  Not that they're
likely to do anything to fix it, but there might be the registry hack
you're seeking and they could put that into their knowledge base.

Remember, whilst M$'s support is chargable, they do refund when they
agree that it's a bug; and what you have is most decidedly a bug.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919