Accessing Websites through a Different Port

Question

I am wanting to access a website from a different port than 80 or 8080  Is this possible  I just want to view the website but through a different port  I do not have a router  I know this can be done because I have a browser that accessing websites through different ports  Called XB Browser by Xero Bank     Thanks for the answers  So  if I setup a proxy on one computer  I could have it go from my computer  to another computer that then returns the website to me  Would this bypass logging software

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You can use ssh to forward ports onto somewhere else.

If you have two computers, one you browse from, and one which is free to access websites, and is not logged (ie. you own it and it's sitting at home), then you can set up a tunnel between them to forward http traffic over.

For example, I connect to my home computer from work using ssh, with port forwarding, like this:

ssh -L 22222:<target_website>:80 <home_computer>

Then I can point my browser to

http://localhost:22222/

And this request will be forwarded over ssh. Since the work computer is first contacting the home computer, and then contacting the target website, it will be hard to log.

However, this is all getting into 'how to bypass web proxies' and the like, and I suggest you create a new question asking what exactly you want to do.

Ie. "How do I bypass web proxies to avoid my traffic being logged?"

User · Answer

Perhaps this is obvious  but FWIW this will only work if the web server is serving requests for that website on the alternate port   It s not at all uncommon for a webserver to only serve a site on port 80

User · Answer

Perhaps this is obvious  but FWIW this will only work if the web server is serving requests for that website on the alternate port   It s not at all uncommon for a webserver to only serve a site on port 80

User · Answer

when viewing a website it gets assigned a random port  it will always come from port 80  usually always  unless the server admin has changed the port   there s no way for someone to change that port unless you have control of the server

User · Answer

You can run the web server on any port  80 is just convention as are 8080  web server on unprivileged port  and 443  web server   ssl    However if you re looking to see some web site by pointing your browser to a different port you re probably out of luck   Unless the web server is being run on that port explicitly you ll just get an error message

User · Answer

No  as the server decides what port it is run on  Perhaps you could install a proxy  which would redirect the port  but in the end the connection would be made on port 80 from your machine

User · Answer

A simple way is to got to http   websitename com 174  and you will be entering through a different port

User · Answer

If your question is about IIS or other server  configuration - yes  it s possible  All you need is to create ports mapping under your Default Site or Virtual Directory and assign specific ports to the site you need  For example it is sometimes very useful for web services  when default port is assigned to some UI front-end and you want to assign service to the same address but with different port

User · Answer

Perhaps this is obvious  but FWIW this will only work if the web server is serving requests for that website on the alternate port   It s not at all uncommon for a webserver to only serve a site on port 80

User · Answer

To clarify earlier answers  the HTTP protocol is  registered  with port 80  and HTTP over SSL  aka HTTPS  is registered with port 443    Well known port numbers are documented by IANA    If you mean  bypass logging software  on the web server  no  It will see the traffic coming from you through the proxy system s IP address  at least  If you re trying to circumvent controls put into place by your IT department  then you need to rethink this  If your IT department blocks traffic to port 80  8080 or 443 anywhere outbound  there is a reason  Ask your IT director  If you need access to these ports outbound from your local workstation to do your job  make your case with them   Installing a proxy server  or using a free proxy service  may be a violation of company policies and could put your employment at risk

User · Answer

If website server is listening to a different port  then yes  simply use http   address port   If server is not listening to a different port  then obviously you cannot

User · Answer

If your question is about IIS or other server  configuration - yes  it s possible  All you need is to create ports mapping under your Default Site or Virtual Directory and assign specific ports to the site you need  For example it is sometimes very useful for web services  when default port is assigned to some UI front-end and you want to assign service to the same address but with different port

User · Answer

Unless you re browsing through a proxy  the web servers hosting the sites you want to access must be configured to listen to a port other than 80 or 8080

User · Answer

A simple way is to got to http   websitename com 174  and you will be entering through a different port

User · Answer

To clarify earlier answers  the HTTP protocol is  registered  with port 80  and HTTP over SSL  aka HTTPS  is registered with port 443    Well known port numbers are documented by IANA    If you mean  bypass logging software  on the web server  no  It will see the traffic coming from you through the proxy system s IP address  at least  If you re trying to circumvent controls put into place by your IT department  then you need to rethink this  If your IT department blocks traffic to port 80  8080 or 443 anywhere outbound  there is a reason  Ask your IT director  If you need access to these ports outbound from your local workstation to do your job  make your case with them   Installing a proxy server  or using a free proxy service  may be a violation of company policies and could put your employment at risk

User · Answer

It depends   The web server on the other end will be set to a certain port  usually 80 and will only accept requests on that specific port   Something along the chain will need to be talking to port 80 to the website   If you control the website  then you can change the port  or get it to accept requests on multiple ports   If the website is already talking on a different port  you can just use the colon syntax to reference another port  eg   http   server com 1234 for port 1234    If you want to use a different port on your client end  but you want to talk to port 80 at the web server end  you ll need to route traffic from port x to port 80   A common way to get this up and running is to use Port Fowarding   ssh can do this for you  see here for a Unix technical overview or here if you re on Windows   Hope that helps

User · Answer

when viewing a website it gets assigned a random port  it will always come from port 80  usually always  unless the server admin has changed the port   there s no way for someone to change that port unless you have control of the server

User · Answer

It depends   The web server on the other end will be set to a certain port  usually 80 and will only accept requests on that specific port   Something along the chain will need to be talking to port 80 to the website   If you control the website  then you can change the port  or get it to accept requests on multiple ports   If the website is already talking on a different port  you can just use the colon syntax to reference another port  eg   http   server com 1234 for port 1234    If you want to use a different port on your client end  but you want to talk to port 80 at the web server end  you ll need to route traffic from port x to port 80   A common way to get this up and running is to use Port Fowarding   ssh can do this for you  see here for a Unix technical overview or here if you re on Windows   Hope that helps

User · Answer

If your question is about IIS or other server  configuration - yes  it s possible  All you need is to create ports mapping under your Default Site or Virtual Directory and assign specific ports to the site you need  For example it is sometimes very useful for web services  when default port is assigned to some UI front-end and you want to assign service to the same address but with different port

User · Answer

when viewing a website it gets assigned a random port  it will always come from port 80  usually always  unless the server admin has changed the port   there s no way for someone to change that port unless you have control of the server

User · Answer

Unless you re browsing through a proxy  the web servers hosting the sites you want to access must be configured to listen to a port other than 80 or 8080

User · Answer

You can use ssh to forward ports onto somewhere else.

If you have two computers, one you browse from, and one which is free to access websites, and is not logged (ie. you own it and it's sitting at home), then you can set up a tunnel between them to forward http traffic over.

For example, I connect to my home computer from work using ssh, with port forwarding, like this:

ssh -L 22222:<target_website>:80 <home_computer>

Then I can point my browser to

http://localhost:22222/

And this request will be forwarded over ssh. Since the work computer is first contacting the home computer, and then contacting the target website, it will be hard to log.

However, this is all getting into 'how to bypass web proxies' and the like, and I suggest you create a new question asking what exactly you want to do.

Ie. "How do I bypass web proxies to avoid my traffic being logged?"

User · Answer

You can only access a website throught the port that is bind with the http server  Example  i hava a web server and it is listening for connections on port 123  the you  only can get my pages connecting to my 123 port

User · Answer

Unless you re browsing through a proxy  the web servers hosting the sites you want to access must be configured to listen to a port other than 80 or 8080

User · Answer

You can only access a website throught the port that is bind with the http server  Example  i hava a web server and it is listening for connections on port 123  the you  only can get my pages connecting to my 123 port

User · Answer

You can run the web server on any port  80 is just convention as are 8080  web server on unprivileged port  and 443  web server   ssl    However if you re looking to see some web site by pointing your browser to a different port you re probably out of luck   Unless the web server is being run on that port explicitly you ll just get an error message

User · Answer

No  as the server decides what port it is run on  Perhaps you could install a proxy  which would redirect the port  but in the end the connection would be made on port 80 from your machine

User · Answer

You can run the web server on any port  80 is just convention as are 8080  web server on unprivileged port  and 443  web server   ssl    However if you re looking to see some web site by pointing your browser to a different port you re probably out of luck   Unless the web server is being run on that port explicitly you ll just get an error message

User · Answer

It depends   The web server on the other end will be set to a certain port  usually 80 and will only accept requests on that specific port   Something along the chain will need to be talking to port 80 to the website   If you control the website  then you can change the port  or get it to accept requests on multiple ports   If the website is already talking on a different port  you can just use the colon syntax to reference another port  eg   http   server com 1234 for port 1234    If you want to use a different port on your client end  but you want to talk to port 80 at the web server end  you ll need to route traffic from port x to port 80   A common way to get this up and running is to use Port Fowarding   ssh can do this for you  see here for a Unix technical overview or here if you re on Windows   Hope that helps

User · Answer

To clarify earlier answers  the HTTP protocol is  registered  with port 80  and HTTP over SSL  aka HTTPS  is registered with port 443    Well known port numbers are documented by IANA    If you mean  bypass logging software  on the web server  no  It will see the traffic coming from you through the proxy system s IP address  at least  If you re trying to circumvent controls put into place by your IT department  then you need to rethink this  If your IT department blocks traffic to port 80  8080 or 443 anywhere outbound  there is a reason  Ask your IT director  If you need access to these ports outbound from your local workstation to do your job  make your case with them   Installing a proxy server  or using a free proxy service  may be a violation of company policies and could put your employment at risk

User · Answer

You can use ssh to forward ports onto somewhere else.

If you have two computers, one you browse from, and one which is free to access websites, and is not logged (ie. you own it and it's sitting at home), then you can set up a tunnel between them to forward http traffic over.

For example, I connect to my home computer from work using ssh, with port forwarding, like this:

ssh -L 22222:<target_website>:80 <home_computer>

Then I can point my browser to

http://localhost:22222/

And this request will be forwarded over ssh. Since the work computer is first contacting the home computer, and then contacting the target website, it will be hard to log.

However, this is all getting into 'how to bypass web proxies' and the like, and I suggest you create a new question asking what exactly you want to do.

Ie. "How do I bypass web proxies to avoid my traffic being logged?"

User · Answer

Perhaps this is obvious  but FWIW this will only work if the web server is serving requests for that website on the alternate port   It s not at all uncommon for a webserver to only serve a site on port 80

User · Answer

If website server is listening to a different port  then yes  simply use http   address port   If server is not listening to a different port  then obviously you cannot

User · Answer

To clarify earlier answers  the HTTP protocol is  registered  with port 80  and HTTP over SSL  aka HTTPS  is registered with port 443    Well known port numbers are documented by IANA    If you mean  bypass logging software  on the web server  no  It will see the traffic coming from you through the proxy system s IP address  at least  If you re trying to circumvent controls put into place by your IT department  then you need to rethink this  If your IT department blocks traffic to port 80  8080 or 443 anywhere outbound  there is a reason  Ask your IT director  If you need access to these ports outbound from your local workstation to do your job  make your case with them   Installing a proxy server  or using a free proxy service  may be a violation of company policies and could put your employment at risk

User · Answer

No  as the server decides what port it is run on  Perhaps you could install a proxy  which would redirect the port  but in the end the connection would be made on port 80 from your machine

User · Answer

No  as the server decides what port it is run on  Perhaps you could install a proxy  which would redirect the port  but in the end the connection would be made on port 80 from your machine

User · Answer

If website server is listening to a different port  then yes  simply use http   address port   If server is not listening to a different port  then obviously you cannot

User · Answer

You can only access a website throught the port that is bind with the http server  Example  i hava a web server and it is listening for connections on port 123  the you  only can get my pages connecting to my 123 port

User · Answer

It depends   The web server on the other end will be set to a certain port  usually 80 and will only accept requests on that specific port   Something along the chain will need to be talking to port 80 to the website   If you control the website  then you can change the port  or get it to accept requests on multiple ports   If the website is already talking on a different port  you can just use the colon syntax to reference another port  eg   http   server com 1234 for port 1234    If you want to use a different port on your client end  but you want to talk to port 80 at the web server end  you ll need to route traffic from port x to port 80   A common way to get this up and running is to use Port Fowarding   ssh can do this for you  see here for a Unix technical overview or here if you re on Windows   Hope that helps

User · Answer

You can run the web server on any port  80 is just convention as are 8080  web server on unprivileged port  and 443  web server   ssl    However if you re looking to see some web site by pointing your browser to a different port you re probably out of luck   Unless the web server is being run on that port explicitly you ll just get an error message

User · Answer

You can only access a website throught the port that is bind with the http server  Example  i hava a web server and it is listening for connections on port 123  the you  only can get my pages connecting to my 123 port

User · Answer

If website server is listening to a different port  then yes  simply use http   address port   If server is not listening to a different port  then obviously you cannot

User · Answer

when viewing a website it gets assigned a random port  it will always come from port 80  usually always  unless the server admin has changed the port   there s no way for someone to change that port unless you have control of the server

User · Answer

You can use ssh to forward ports onto somewhere else.

If you have two computers, one you browse from, and one which is free to access websites, and is not logged (ie. you own it and it's sitting at home), then you can set up a tunnel between them to forward http traffic over.

For example, I connect to my home computer from work using ssh, with port forwarding, like this:

ssh -L 22222:<target_website>:80 <home_computer>

Then I can point my browser to

http://localhost:22222/

And this request will be forwarded over ssh. Since the work computer is first contacting the home computer, and then contacting the target website, it will be hard to log.

However, this is all getting into 'how to bypass web proxies' and the like, and I suggest you create a new question asking what exactly you want to do.

Ie. "How do I bypass web proxies to avoid my traffic being logged?"

User · Answer

If your question is about IIS or other server  configuration - yes  it s possible  All you need is to create ports mapping under your Default Site or Virtual Directory and assign specific ports to the site you need  For example it is sometimes very useful for web services  when default port is assigned to some UI front-end and you want to assign service to the same address but with different port

User · Answer

Unless you re browsing through a proxy  the web servers hosting the sites you want to access must be configured to listen to a port other than 80 or 8080

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