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Originally Posted by jphphotography
@Tomsem
I had tried specifying a different port like how you suggest but the browser flat out refused it, are you sure that will work using the webkit browser? It's possible that the site I tried viewing caused the kindle to reject it (my transmission bit torrent webgui) but I don't have another site to try at the moment. I'd be really happy if specifying the port did actually work because like DiapDealer my port 80 is already taken up with a different web server.
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I just tried this again, I remembered that I have mediatomb also running on port 49152 but any time I specify a port I get "There was an error encountered when processing your request" in my browser. I suspect that when browsing over 3G non-standard ports may be blocked, if this is the case it may even be determined by the wireless provider. Could anyone confirm if accessing a non-standard port (ie 8080) works on their Kindle? Perhaps it'd work if you were at home on wifi instead of 3G? If nobody responds I'll give it a shot when I get home from work and update this thread. It would be nice to be able to access a web library from anywhere via 3G, perhaps I'll have to forego having my nas web gui on port 80 and have my ebook library there instead 
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It definitely works for me on calibre's default of 8080 over my local network. I think the syntax is picky - don't leave out the trailing '/'.
In theory it should be possible to extend access to the internet at large (configuring a port of your choice on the router and redirecting this to a server on its local network) but I haven't attempted that. For one thing, my router's IP address is dynamic so whatever access I could arrange would break from time to time when a new IP is assigned to it.