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Hi! Could you tell me what is the difference between these two linkshttp:// xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxand http:// xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080and suppose my IP today is 123.19.60.162, when I type http://123.19.60.162, it says "A user name and password are being requested by http://123.19.60.162. The site says: 'SpeedTouch (00-0E-50-9C-E8-DB)'" and ask me for username and password, I own that computer 's IP but don't sure what I have to type in ?Thanks

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Hi! Could you tell me what is the difference between these two linkshttp:// xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxand http:// xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080and suppose my IP today is 123.19.60.162, when I type http://123.19.60.162, it says "A user name and password are being requested by http://123.19.60.162. The site says: 'SpeedTouch (00-0E-50-9C-E8-DB)'" and ask me for username and password, I own that computer 's IP but don't sure what I have to type in ?Thanks

You're going to have a lot of problems if your IP is dynamic. Try usinghttp://localhostandhttp://localhost:8080just to make sure you're really targeting your computer, not another one (like, say, the DHCP server).As to what the number after ":" means, it's the port you want to connect on.http://localhostis equivalent tohttp://localhost:80as port 80 is the default for the HTTP protocol. Web servers (as well as any other kind of a server) can run on any port, so there's always a way to adjust the port you want to connect to. The HTTP scheme specifies it in the way above.You may have more than one web server running on your computer, or a single web server running on multiple ports. For example, you can have Apache on port 80 and IIS on 8080, or vise versa. You could also have Apache running on 80, 81, or any number that strikes you fancy. You can make different content be served for each port. All of those are configurations with the web server.

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good explanation