Neuro Internet www.lm.com~nab

[Christopher Connolly]

In article <nab-1202951946400001 at nab.slip.lm.com>,
Neil A. Busis <nab at telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>> Should have added to the last post that making the link above results in the 
>> following actual access point.  I don't know if it is 'better' to use
>the form 
>> of address listed above or the one below.  
>> 
>> http://ivory.lm.com:80/~nab/
>
>You are correct that the URL:
>
>http://www.lm.com/~nab
>
>is actually an alias for the URL:
>
>http://ivory.lm.com:80/~nab/

URLs can optionally specify a port number by using ":n" after the host
name, where 'n' is the port number to be used for the connection.  By
default, http uses port 80, so the two URLs above actually refer to
the same machine, same port.  The second form is only necessary when
the port number is not 80.

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