Geoff Vass <mailto:geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx
