I've seen MarketFeeder Pro use high-ish port numbers every now and then for viewing statements, which is good, but nearly all the time now on my computer it is using low port numbers which is causing problems with viewing statements. I'm also getting the logging problem reported at
http://community.welldonesoft.com/troubleshooting-8/what-this/msg40569/#msg40569. which also seems to be caused by low port numbers being used.
If I open a first instance of MFP it uses port 2 (or something around port 2) for viewing statements which works OK, although not good practise as far as I understand (see a few paragraphs below), as port 2 is also a "well-known" port for CompressNET.
Once I open a few more instances of MFP, and get to port 7 or so, I start getting problems including:
If I try to view a statement I get the following message in my browser:
"This webpage is not available
ERR_UNSAFE_PORT"
....and the logging problem reported in the link above.
For example I'm trying to view a statement and MPF points my browser to
http://127.0.0.1:9/#statement;;testSo as we can see from the URL, MFP is pointing my browser to port 9 and the browser really, really doesn't like that! The same occurs at other low port numbers (though not all - it can take ages for me to juggle my MPF instances around to get statements and logging working correctly)
Instead of using low port numbers, resulting in these frustrating logging problems, please could MFP be set up to use higher port numbers, for example the "dynamic port range of 49152 to 65535.
As far as I understand, as well as avoiding the statement and logging problems, it good practise to use higher port numbers, ie the "dynamic ports" from 49152 to 65535. This seems to be recommended by IANA rather than using "well-known" or "system"ports (0 to 1023) and "Registered Ports:" (1024 to 49151) (see for example
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6335#section-8.1.2 )
I'm loving Marketfeeder Pro but these logging problems cause by the low port numbers are really stressing me out and causing huge amounts of wasted time.