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>This is because of the widespread assumption that anything that goes over port 80 is HTTP 1.1, which makes some middle-boxes interfere with or destroy traffic
by halomru 10y ago
>This is because of the widespread assumption that anything that goes over port 80 is HTTP 1.1, which makes some middle-boxes interfere with or destroy traffic when any other protocols are used on that port.
I'm not convinced that's a real problem once traffic leaves your servers/CDN. In practice I have seen lots of protocols use port 80, since 80 is the port that's most likely to be unrestricted on even the strictest corporate firewalls.
- noselasd 10y agoIt's a real problem. There are plenty of middle boxes around either at ISPs/cell operators or in residential gateways/modems that interfers on port 80.
- danudey 10y agoWe make mobile games for iOS and Android, and we've mostly switched to HTTPS because of people injecting garbage (ads, mostly) into our content.