On 22/11/2019 00:12, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:56:43 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>
>> In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Andy Burns   wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>>>> that said, port 8080 is an unusual number to be running something
>>>>> that expects to speak vnc/rfb, sounds more like a non-standard http
>>>>> port, and you should be pointing a web browser on the pi to
>>>>> localhost:8080
>>>> 8080 is default proxy web server port
>>> Only unofficially, it tends to also get used by anything else wanting
>>> to using http where port 80 is already in use.
>>
>> I use 8000 (http) or 8443 (https) myself. Andy's point I think is that
>> vnc is usually on port 5900 (or 5900 + N for the (N-1)th instance), so
>> are you (OP) really sure it is supposed to be vnc traffic?
>>
> In case you haven't heard about it, most Linux distros, including
> Raspbian, have a copy of the file /etc/service
>
/etc/service*s*

> This is a plaintext ASCII file that lists all the well-defined network
> services and the ports they are expected to use.
>
>
And 8080 is alt http or http caching


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