List of WTVP services known so far.
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| Service Name |
Description |
Common Ports |
Supports SECURE method?
|
| wtv-1800 |
Pre-registration service for new clients. Serves TellyScript best suited for the user's area before sending the client off to headwaiter |
1615 |
No
|
A-F
| Service Name |
Description |
Common Ports |
Supports SECURE method?
|
| wtv-aroundtown |
Unknown |
1628 |
?
|
| wtv-author |
Page Builder service |
1643 |
Yes
|
| wtv-census-udp |
Specifies a UDP server for a WebTV/MSN TV client to connect to for metering services, if metering is configured to be enabled |
1657 |
No (custom UDP protocol)
|
| wtv-center |
Hosts various aggregated sections (also known as info centers) of the WebTV/MSN TV service (Around Town, Money, WebTV Today, etc.) |
1639 |
Yes
|
| wtv-chat |
Hosts Chat services |
1630 |
Yes
|
| wtvchat |
Possibly the same as wtv-chat, just with a slightly different change in name |
1630 |
Yes(?)
|
| wtv-content |
Hosts various misc. content such as video, images, and demos |
1629 |
Yes
|
| wtv-cookie |
Service for managing website cookies on individual user accounts |
1619 |
Yes
|
| wtv-customscript |
Service that facilitates creation of custom TellyScript for the box to use when dialing |
1623 |
Yes
|
| wtv-disk |
Downloadable content service for WebTV Plus units |
1635 |
Yes
|
| wtv-epguide |
Electronic Program Guide service. Used to give WebTV Plus units TV listings |
1633 |
?
|
| wtv-explore2 |
Explore section of WebTV. As ulTRAX put it, "Explore was wasteland of ads presented as a public service" |
1625 |
?
|
| wtv-explore |
Probably similar to wtv-explore2 |
1625 |
?
|
| wtv-favorite |
Hosts Favorites services |
1611 |
Yes
|
| wtv-flashrom |
Flash update services. Allows the box to download flash updates to the system software |
1618 |
Yes
|
| wtv-forum |
Functions similarly to wtv-news |
1605 |
Yes
|
| file |
File URI content proxy service(?). Dunno why there's a service definition for this |
1650 |
?
|
| ftp |
Believed to be an FTP content proxy service |
1650 |
?
|
G-I
| Service Name |
Description |
Common Ports |
Supports SECURE method?
|
| wtv-guide |
Hosts Help section |
1621 |
Yes
|
| gopher |
Gopher content proxy service |
1650 |
?
|
| wtv-head-waiter |
Headwaiter service. Handles login and serving/renewing the wtv-ticket |
1601 |
No(?; communication is unencrypted, but we believe the server can choose to encrypt the response body)
|
| wtv-home |
Hosts WebTV/MSN TV home page services and legal information |
1612 |
Yes
|
| http |
HTTP content proxy service |
1650 |
Yes
|
| wtv-intro |
Unknown |
1621 |
?
|
L-P
| Service Name |
Description |
Common Ports |
Supports SECURE method?
|
| wtv-log |
Usage logging/telemetry services |
1609 |
Yes
|
| wtv-mail |
E-mail services |
1608 |
Yes
|
| mailto |
mailto -> wtv-mail proxy service. Goes to the "Write an e-mail" page with the email address field pre-filled |
1608 |
Yes
|
| wtv-music |
Service that hosts music content for WebTV/MSN TV background music |
1656 |
Yes
|
| wtv-news |
Hosts Discuss (newsgroup) services for WebTV/MSN TV |
1605 |
Yes
|
| news |
Newsgroup URI proxy. Redirects newsgroup requests to WebTV/MSN TV's own Discuss service |
1605 |
Yes
|
| wtv-notices |
Unknown |
1622 |
?
|
| wtv-onair |
Unknown |
1648 |
?
|
| wtv-partner |
Unknown |
1638 |
|
| wtv-passport |
Authentication for Passport accounts within WebTV/MSN TV. Currently only seen in use for Messenger login process |
1654 |
Yes
|
Q-V
| Service Name |
Description |
Common Ports |
Supports SECURE method?
|
| wtv-register |
Handles registration of new boxes |
1607 |
Yes
|
| wtv-setup |
User settings service. Also hosted the background music files for some reason |
1613 |
Yes
|
| wtv-smartcard |
Supposedly a service used to handle smartcards. Didn't have any practical use |
1632 |
?
|
| wtv-spot |
Spot ad service |
1642 |
?
|
| wtv-star |
Serves pages for service maintenance |
1603 |
No(?)
|
| wtv-tricks |
Hosts Tricks service. Originally a restricted area linking to a bunch of pages designed to debug(?) the service. Also hosts redirect URLs for various parts of the WebTV/MSN TV service |
1602 |
Yes
|
| wtv-tutorial |
Possibly for a tutorial section of the service |
1636 |
?
|
| wtv-video |
Despite the name, wtv-video not only hosts video content, but music content for karaoke as well |
1634 |
?
|
| wtv-vod |
Unknown |
1653 |
|
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| Service Name |
Description |
Common Ports |
Supports SECURE method?
|
| wtv-* |
Possibly a duplicate of wtv-star |
1603 |
?
|