What Ports Does SL Now Use for HTTP Textures?

[Haravikk Mistral]

Okay, so it seems that since I last used SL there have been a number of network related changes, including the ability to set a custom port for network traffic.

However, in the past I've been using SL with Squid to provide a much larger, shared cache for anything fetched via HTTP. However it is no longer caching anything for SL, even though I haven't changed any settings.

 

The default port for HTTP traffic used to be 12046, has this changed to a new default?

[Qie Niangao]

FWIW, netstat is still showing traffic on that port bound for the SL process specifically when the viewer is set to use HTTP Textures, while it's loading textures, and not otherwise. (I didn't specifically test HTTP Inventory.)

[Monty Linden]

So far, ports are unchanged though response headers will change in the near future.  Ports and URL structure can always change as well.

As for caching, no comment on squid per se, for good or bad, our URLs do not really look like resources making caching requests fragile.  But the viewers have had their caching limit bumped in the past year or so should you want to try more local disk caching.