Skype and SSL
A year ago, I ran into a problem with Skype
squatting on port 80, which I had long forgotten about. Today, I ran into
one with Skype squatting on port 443.
I was trying to set up SSL on my Windows Server 2003 dev box. My ultimate
goal is to experiment with client certs and server certs for SOAP, but that's a
story for another time. I was running into all kinds of strange problems,
exacerbated by the relatively strange IIS configuration on my machine.
I tried SslDiag.
In hindsight, it pointed me towards the underlying problem, but I couldn't
see it at the time. I did a lot of digging around on Google. Eventually, a newsgroup
thread on ListenOnlyList gave me CurrPorts, which showed me
that Skype was listening on port 443. I suppose netstat -anob,
TcpView,
or Port
Reporter would have told me the same thing, though CurrPorts
had the friendliest view. WFetch from the IIS
6 Resource Kit Tools was also useful in looking at
raw requests and responses.
