On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:52:49PM +0000, Steve Holme wrote:
> Also, I'm not sure if I missed something but is it possible to set this
> variable to a large number like 2 million (on 32-bit systems), so do we need
> to validate against values above 65535?

I don't know if there are ways to abuse this, but on my (64 bit) system,
"curl http://www.google.com:-18446744073709551536/" behaves as if it
were port 80.

Frank

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