FP98: FrontPage Installs Extensions on Port 443

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Port 443 is the default Secure Port, used to communicate on the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) of the World Wide Web. FrontPage will install extensions to port 443 on any server capable of communicating with SSL, except for Netscape servers on Windows NT. Regardless of whether you have enabled your server to listen on the secure port, the extensions for port 443 will be installed. There is no way to remove extensions from port 443 without also removing them from port 80 because both ports serve the same content and in fact are the same extensions.

The FrontPage Server Extensions for the following servers support SSL:

   Microsoft Internet information Server
   O'Reilly & Associates' WebSite Pro
   Netscape Enterprise Server
   Netscape Commerce Server
				

Note that due to architectural differences in the method by which the secure port is implemented on Netscape servers on Windows NT, port 443 is not installed by default. Netscape servers on UNIX do not exhibit this symptom.

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