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Firefox bans "unsafe" ports by default #1061

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mmuman opened this issue Feb 14, 2021 · 4 comments
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Firefox bans "unsafe" ports by default #1061

mmuman opened this issue Feb 14, 2021 · 4 comments
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enhancement suggests alteration of existing functionality to better support different use cases good first issue straightforward enough for first-time contributors to be able to implement themselves question issue where reporter seeks information about conky or a problem they encounter while running it

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@mmuman
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mmuman commented Feb 14, 2021

Firefox started to restrict which ports it can connect to. A Firefox user trying to connect to the Conky by HTTP on the default port would get this message:

This address is restricted
This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has cancelled the request for your protection.

With the only option to "Try Again" which wouldn't work.

The workaround is to create a network.security.ports.banned.override key in about:config to list the ports to allow.

We should at least mention this in the documentation.
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mmuman commented Feb 14, 2021 •
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Ok, I thought Firefox would filter all ports >= some arbitrary value, but it's actually a discrete list, with 10080 happening to be some antique backup software. I suppose the simplest fix would be to just use a different default port :-D

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su8 commented Feb 14, 2021

Can u sénd a pull réquest sir ¿

@su8 su8 added enhancement suggests alteration of existing functionality to better support different use cases good first issue straightforward enough for first-time contributors to be able to implement themselves question issue where reporter seeks information about conky or a problem they encounter while running it labels Feb 22, 2021
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it's actually a discrete list

This is great, thank you

mmuman added a commit to mmuman/conky that referenced this issue Sep 4, 2022
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Use another port for HTTP, one not blocked by Firefox and Chrome
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Fixes brndnmtthws#1061.
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Add an http_port config setting
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This should help with brndnmtthws#1061.

Also added a warning about the default port being blocked by browsers.
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Add an http_port config setting
f08e55f 
This should help with brndnmtthws#1061.

Also added a warning about the default port being blocked by browsers.
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@mmuman
Add an http_port config setting
475b859 
This should help with #1061.

Also added a warning about the default port being blocked by browsers.
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This issue is resolved as the config option was added, as well as a warning about the port being blocked.

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