Why 8080 and 8443 ..?

[David Whitehurst <dl...@comcast.net>]

I'm curious about the historical reasons behind the choice of 8080 and 
8443 as the "default" ports for Coyote connectors?  Can someone answer 
this question? Knowing that the general ports are 80 and 443, would the 
need for translation of the ports, running Tomcat as a non-root user, be 
a "reason" for this?

Thanks,

David Whitehurst
dlwhitehurst@comcast.net

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Re: Why 8080 and 8443 ..?

[Parsons Technical Services <pa...@earthlink.net>]

Taking a wild stab at it, in the early days Tomcat was not as good of a http 
server as it is now and was thus put behind a "real" web server to do it's 
thing when needed and not mess with static stuff. Thus to avoid conflicts on 
install the ports were set to a different value from default. Then there is 
the issue that Tomcat cannot start on Linux on the default ports unless 
running as root.

So there are two of the possible reasons that an upper port was chosen. 
Since I am relatively new to Tomcat it is totally possible that I am way off 
base.


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Subject: Why 8080 and 8443 ..?


> I'm curious about the historical reasons behind the choice of 8080 and 
> 8443 as the "default" ports for Coyote connectors?  Can someone answer 
> this question? Knowing that the general ports are 80 and 443, would the 
> need for translation of the ports, running Tomcat as a non-root user, be a 
> "reason" for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Whitehurst
> dlwhitehurst@comcast.net
>
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