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To my understanding, every time someone is hosting a service e.g. mysql server, there is always a server IP (or domain name) and a Port needed to reach the service (e.g. www.servername.com:3306).

However, when I access sites such as www.google.com or www.wikipedia.org, I 've no idea what port I am connecting to.

For instance, none of the following links www.google.com:80, www.google.com:8080 work, and the case is the same for wikipedia. So the question is:

  1. Is there a port already "embedded" in links such as google or wikipedia, or have I just not found the default port yet (i.e. it is not 80 or 8080)?

  2. Is there a general way to break a link www.somewebsite.com into a host + port combination in the form of www.somelink.com:[PORT] ?

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  • If a service uses its "well-known port" (as managed by IANA) then specifying the port explicitly is redundant.
    – Zac67
    Feb 8, 2021 at 10:09

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By default, when you're accessing some site in your browser with http:// in your URL, it means you're accessing tcp/80 port. And in case of https:// - tcp/443. You can override the port by adding :<port_number> after the host name, as you already mentioned in your question, example: http://www.servername.com:8081.

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    The IANA maintains a port number listing for every approved protocol. iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/…
    – tripleee
    Feb 8, 2021 at 10:01
  • great, this is also the case for my example,so www.google.com:443 and www.wikipedia.org:443 works as expected. I knew about 80 for http but ignored 443 for https, thank you!
    – Enk9456
    Feb 8, 2021 at 10:12
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It's totally depends upon application developer decision to host application in server with any choosen specific ports .

By common application hosted ports are 443 with few of them will still use customized ports for example TCP_8081 etc

Application team is responsible to create awareness among users to use domain name or URL with hosted ports to access application .

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