Brett_Tabke - 11:41 am on Nov 2, 2000 (gmt 0)

When two computers connect on the internet, one part of the protocal is they talk to one another on "ports". These are just different numbers assigned for different services. One port number for web, one for email, ftp, news, etc.

In the current URL scheme, you can include a port number in the url.

[webmasterworld.com:80...]

80 is currently the standard port number for web/http connections. There is no law that it has to be that way, and many hosts do change it for various reasons.

Try your connection with: //pages.domain.com:80/username/
And also try it without the colon and number all together (standard url).

If it connects, you can safely remove the 8086 and colon from all urls - not needed. I'll bet you that you can. I belive 8086 is actually port 80 and 86 is a sub port(?) so that it is standard port 80. I don't know why you are showing the port anywhere in your url.