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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Date: 2005-06-27T00:45:57+01:00

Bjorn, excellent information about Unix network deamons. Thanks a lot.

> According to what I've read about AWS, it implements HTTP and=20
> interfaces to the sockets API, so it doesn't need Apache.

Exactly.

> If your application isn't meant to be used by humans through web=20
> browsers, it may make more sense not to use port 80. IPP for example,=20=

> the Internet printing protocol, is built on top of HTTP but has its=20
> own port =96 number 631.

Human, machine, port number, irrelevant. URLs may include the port=20
number. You just redirect your-cool-domain-name.net to=20
your-account-at.superduper-hosting.com:12345 and get done with it.