Port Translation

[jrivera23]

I am looking to migrate to new HW hosting our WSS sites and is load balanced. all looks well with testing and although we are using a load balancing appliance and works well, i have aconcern about the new port (81) that we are using and links specifying the port #. i would like to hide the port # when mousing over active links and docs posted on our sites. is there a way to hide this? our current envirnment is running on port 80 and after migration our environment will be using port 81 and should be undetected by all users.

[Jay Mueller]

The HTTP specification designates port 80 as the default HTTP standard port. Each client browser implements this as its default port when it makes a request to a web server. This would need to be a switch on the client to change the default. You will not be able to hide this. A user could run a netstat and see what ports are being used also.