310172 - Firefox won't load the page, claiming that access to the port requested has been blocked for security reasons

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

This is a school-related website for collaborating with peers and teachers
online, which Firefox will not load. I get a message saying that "Access to the
port number given has been siabled for security reasons".

Safari 2.0.1 on OS X Tiger 10.4.2 with latest security updates will load the
page without any sort of issue!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page from the link at http://www.parade.vic.edu.au/Online.htm, on
the left of the page.
2. Reload the page.
3. Reload the page again.
4. Load the page by typing the address manually in the address bar (address must
be copied from the status bar when the cursor is floating over the link from
http://www.parade.vic.edu.au/Online.htm/).

Actual Results:  
Page didn't load, I got an error stating that "Access to the port number given
[had] been denied for security reasons."

Expected Results:  
Load the Blackboard login page completely.

Macintosh running OS X 10.4.2, latest security, Firefox 1.0.6, numerous
extensions installed (Adaptive referer remover, Adblock, NoScript, PDF download,
SnapBack, Flashgot, Forecast Fox, All-in-one sidebar, Adblock Filterset.G
Updater, Dr Web Online Virus scanner, etc.)

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Port 95 (the :95 after the hostname) is reserved for another service. See
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html which has instructions
on how to override this. You should complain to the site admins that they
shouldn't run a web (HTTP) server on that port, internet standards dictate they
use a port bigger than 1024 if they're not using the standard port 80.

Comment 2

[Paul]

the website I went to (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html)
doesn't offer clear instructions on how to allow port 95 when running Firefox on
the Mac platform.

Someone please help - I am running Firefox on a Mac running OS X 10.3.9, I
cannot locate the user.js file to modify this. I found the all.js file but I
don't know where to find the pref("network.security.ports.banned.override"...
line so I can allow port 95 (I've tried using the 'Find' command to no avail!)

The website I need to access is a school-based collaboration website and I can't
get hold of school at the moment...

Comment 3

[Paul]

Don't worry any further about this. I was able to modify the all.js file within
the Firefox appication contents (Mac OS X), however, I would like to know where
to find the user.js file. I have looked in the Firefox profile folder, in the
Application Support folder of my Home directory Library and the Mozilla folder
of the global system library and can't find it.

Launching a search for the file yields no results, that is, I don't have the
patience to wait for the search to be completed - the all.js search yielded
results in a matter of seconds whereas I was left waiting for minutes without
any success when searching for the user.js file. Could it be an invisible file?

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

Only bugs that are solved by patching the code get resloved fixed. Restoring
first resolution.

Comment 5

[Navid Zamani]

This blocking is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. These are totalitarian Nazi methods! YOU DO NOT GET TO DECIDE OVER MY HEAD WHAT’S ALLOWED AND WHAT NOT!

I demand this to be removed IMMEDIATELY!

And how retarded do you think your users are?
(Apart from you deliberately forcing them into stupidity by dumbing everything down like that.)