Why Was 80 Chosen As The Default Http Port And 443 As The Default Https Port
While many of us are familiar with various ports being assigned for specific purposes or uses, we may not know the particular reason why they were chosen. Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. Photo courtesy of Rodney Lewis (Flickr). The Question SuperUser reader Samuel Alexander wants to know why 80 and 443 were chosen as the default HTTP and HTTPS ports:...