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RE: putty client behaviour?
That connection is unrelated to PuTTY.
I'm guessing you're trying to access host-palace through your HTTP proxy set up with PuTTY? Well, firstly, I wasn't aware that PuTTY did HTTP proxies so that might be the problem, and secondly that "Connection request from 127.0.0.1, port 1963" is your browser's locally-bound outgoing port which is perfectly normal and required in any sort of TCP connection.
It doesn't mean your computer is connecting to random ports, it doesn't mean your computer is listening on random ports, it is simply the way that TCP works and you need a local port for a TCP connection as well as a remote one.
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