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Re: Service names on machines with bad service files
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: Service names on machines with bad service files |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:38:01 -0500 |
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:30:22 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
wrote:
LMI> A Windows user has a problem with opening a connection using port
LMI> "imaps", which doesn't exist in that user's service file (or wherever
LMI> Windows stashes these things).
LMI> So I'm wondering whether there's any nice way to determine that that's
LMI> the situation and work around it.
...
LMI> 2) Somehow determine that the OS doesn't know what "imaps" is, and use
LMI> "993" as a fallback. I have no idea whether that's easy to do.
I think this is the best solution: map service names to ports in an
OS-specific way.
For W32, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832017 could be used. It gives
several standard port assignments in tables. That whole article could
be transformed into a "services" file at compile time or provided
dynamically.
Ted