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Regarding @Leo’s confusion around http and https being run over non-standard ports.
This is very common. You will often find the UI on port 80 or 443 and over on some other high-numbered port, another http/https connection, which is used for a SOAP API, for example or maybe a separate management interface.
The applicationst hat use the service know automatically which port to connect to, whilst users just carry on connecting to ports 80 or 443 without there ever being a possibility that they suddenly stumble on the API and start getting XML data spat at them and complaining that the site is broken.
Ah that makes sense. I wonder how many web pages use these secondary ports? I wasn’t surprised that it happened, just that it was such a huge percentage of all http/s traffic.