VNC Over Port 80?

[msing]

I was hoping, since I don't run a web server on my network, to access my internal VNC server from outside on port 80 so as to hopefully avoid firewalls on uncommon ports in various places on other networks.

It's simple enough to host a VNC server and tell it to use port 80. However when I run the viewer, which I have on a flash drive, and tell it to connect on port 80, it tries to connect on port 5980, as if it were correcting my "typo".

I even tried using all combinations of leading zeros on the port such as 00080, and the same thing happens.

Is there any way to get around this strange problem?

Thanks,
Matt

[vnclinux]

are you using the format ip::port

Note the double ::

[msing]

Ah that worked, thank you. But why do you have to use a different format depending on which port ranges you use?

[jp0469]

Ah that worked, thank you. But why do you have to use a different format depending on which port ranges you use?

You don't. It's just that the single colon format is used when specifying the connection by server number starting at the default port of 5900. For example ip_address:2 is the same as ip_address::5902. That's why when you specified ip_address:80, you were using the equivalent of ip_address::5980

[msing]

Ah I see. Thanks.