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In Russia we served HTTP traffic on non-standard ports, such as 8100, 8101, 8102 in addition to default 80. It was very common in 90s. Can anyone guess, why?
by ivan78 13y ago
In Russia we served HTTP traffic on non-standard ports, such as 8100, 8101, 8102 in addition to default 80. It was very common in 90s. Can anyone guess, why?
- georgiecasey 13y agoi give up, tell us why!
- ivan78 13y agoTo solve the problem with non-US character-encoding. Web browsers of 90s were notoriously bad with client-side encoding. The only way to show content properly for all available clients was server-side recoding and different HTTP ports were used to serve content with different encoding - ISO, DOS, Windows and KOI. Each web-page had a set of links, usually in top-right corner, labeled as "ISO", "DOS", "Win" and "KOI" which transferred you to corresponding HTTP port.
- georgiecasey 13y agoi was actually going to guess this. very interesting.