Subj : Re: Browsers accept connections from internet?
To   : Randall Parker
From : Chris Robinson
Date : Tue Apr 03 2001 07:31 am

From: Chris Robinson <robinson@manchester.rms.slb.com>

Randall,

AFAIK Zonealarm prompts for allowing as server for ALL programs that connect to 
the Internet.  I don't think this neccessarily means that the program does need 
to act as a server.  If you read the help it says only to enable this if you're 
sure that it's part of the core functionality of the program.

Chris.

Randall Parker wrote:

> 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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