Subj : Browsers accept connections from internet?
To   : All
From : Randall Parker
Date : Mon Apr 02 2001 06:08 am

From: Randall Parker <rgparker@west.net>

ZoneAlarm does a pretty good job of telling you on a task-by-task basis when 
tasks want to do things. Well, why does it when starting up a browser that the 
browser wants to register to be a server (Moz and I think IE as well)  or to 
accept connections from the internet (Opera)?

And why is the exact nature of the report different for different browsers?

I haven't yet answered No to the question. I suppose I need to do that and then 
see what happens.

I thought browsers initiate all connections with the outside and therefore 
would never be expected to be a listener for new connections on a socket of 
their own. But do they have to create a socket just to be able to initiate a 
socket connection to an http or other type of server?

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