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Not being tied to well-known port numbers, and by extension a single service per IP address, is also great.
by lxgr 1y ago
Not being tied to well-known port numbers, and by extension a single service per IP address, is also great.
- solarkraft 1y agoYou can run HTTPS on any port.
- lxgr 1y agoMy argument was in favor of layering protocols on top of HTTP(S), which allows hosting an unlimited number of instances of servers for the same protocol on the same IP without having to somehow agree on using a non-standard port.