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> Enterprise blocking of IP ports has caused quite a mess already.

Which mess did it cause?




The mess that requires legitimate services to pierce through firewalls.

https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-Piercing/x58.html


It’s also part of why so many things that’d be better on TCP sockets end up being implemented on top of HTTP... and then actually see adoption in that form. A combo of JS limitations and firewalls aggressively blocking everything that’s not HTTP.


The mess that has made any new protocol look like HTTP for the last 15-20 years.




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