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window.location.port not working?

If I have the following in the HTML page thispage.htm
<body>
<script language=Javascript>
alert(window.location.hostname); //or (use .host)
alert(window.location.port);
</script>
</body>

and I go to http://222.222.222.222:80/thispage.htm

first alert I get is fine
222.222.222.222
second one comes up blank. Why?

Is it some sort of a firewall config.

Can someone else share a snippet that actually gets the :80 (or any other) port number into a variable?

Thanks

Zvonko

If your window.location.href does NOT contain the port, then you will not get the location.port
Have a look at the complete location.href

geoenvi

ASKER

I thought the location object contains what is typed in the URL addressbar of IE? I browse to http://222.222.222.222:80/thispage.htm and it clearly contains port number there

Zvonko

I just tested on my IIS. You are right, it is strange. The port was not passed neither to href nor to port!

geoenvi

ASKER

My point exactly. So.. what is the solution

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geoenvi

ASKER

meaning that any port other than 80 would be passed into the location.port?

Zvonko

Yeap!

Zvonko

Or any port other then 443 for https.

geoenvi

ASKER

Do you know if this is an IIS specific trait or is it IE specific or what?

geoenvi

ASKER

Thanks Zvonko. You have helped a lot in the recent past. You can truly wear your your expert badge of honor

:-)

Zvonko

Thanks :-)

This worked also for port 80 on ASP side:
<% Response.Write("Port: " & Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_PORT")) %>

And I do not know how general that port problem is.
I can imagine that the normlization is done on browser side, because there is the scripting engine environment.