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Offline Browser

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There are preset rules for the following offline browsers:

Offline Explorer
SuperHTTP Web Spider
Teleport Pro
WebZIP

Default browser rules can be found in the General section.

Offline Explorer connection
SuperHTTP connection
Teleport Pro connection
WebZIP connection

Protocol: TCP
Direction: Outbound
Remote Port(s): HTTP (80), 81-83, HTTPS (443), SOCKS (1080), 3128, 8080, 8088, 11523
Action: Allow It

What it's for

This rule is used by your offline browser when you try and browse web pages with HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). This is the only port you really need for browsing, ports 81, 82, 83 are auxiliary web browsing ports and are rarely used. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (SSL)) is used for secure sites. SOCKS is only needed by people using a SOCKS proxy server. 3128, 8080, and 8088 are common ports that proxy servers use. 11523 is used by AOL's browser.

To optimize

Remove the remote ports: 81, 82, 83 unless you know that you need them. If you don't use a SOCKS proxy server remove SOCKS. If you don't use a remote or local proxy remove 3128, 8080 and 8088. Most people can just remove all ports except for HTTP. If you don't use AOL's browser remove 11523.
More about HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, PROXY
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