RE: Google Picasa Listening on Port 80?

["Kameron Gasso" <kgasso-lists () visp net>]

Geoff Vass <mailto:geoff () cadzow com au> wrote on Friday, August 11, 2006
5:28 AM:

> I'm using Picasa 2.5 Beta (32.43), and I notice from Sysinternals'
> TCPVIEW app that it is listening on port 80. So I fire up the
> browser, and sure enough, http://localhost returns a blank page. When
> I close Picasa, the browser returns "The page cannot be displayed".  
>
> What a great idea, a user-mode graphics application listening on the
> most attacked port! 
>
> Picasa 2.2 (28.20) doesn't do this.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff Vass

Hi,

After doing a little digging, the Picasa 2.5 Beta only appears to only bind
to the localhost interface.  Outside attack hopefully wouldn't be an issue,
but I can forsee some serious conflicts with other applications running
locally on the user's PC if there's not a simple method of disabling this,
and I'm not seeing an option to disable this in the app itself.  Guess
that's why it's a Beta. :)

Thanks,

Kameron Gasso
kgasso () visp net