Can iPad browse websites having port numbers other than 80?

[aurora72]

Hello,

Maybe you know, there are some websites out there which have port numbers other than the standard 80, such as 81, 88, 8080 and so on e.g. "http://www.mywebsite.com:81"

We can all browse such websites on a standard OS such as Mac OS or Windows using any browser such as IE, Firefox and Opera.

But when I try opening such addresses on my iPad, using either Safari or my other browser called Atomic Web, I just can't open it. I guess iPad assumes when you try to open a website, it must always have a standard port with it, that is the '80'.

It would be very useful to be able to open websites with non-standard port numbers with iPad. Do you know a way to do that?

Thanks.

[simonlim]

I am not sure but is there a way we can use proxy server to access the website?

[aurora72]

Nope. Use of a proxy would not help the port problem. iPad would still keep on assuming the standard port 80 while browsing the websites.

[hayne]

I think you could set up a proxy server that would take a request like:
www.mydomain.com
and redirect it to:
www.mydomain.com:81

[ganbustein]

It works for me. I fired up an old test Rails site that listens on port 3000 on my iMac, and then got to it from Safari on my iPad as http://zebra.local:3000/. (Note: Safari Mobile did not prepend "www." either.) I was obviously in wi-fi range for that address to resolve.

This and your other problems may be due to your trying to access your machine through a firewall that's not letting the connection through.

[simonlim]

I think you could set up a proxy server that would take a request like:
www.mydomain.com
and redirect it to:
www.mydomain.com:81

I also meant the same :)