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This is ridiclous

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's a joke, note the conflation of port (physical connector) and port (one of 65536 virtual TCP/UDP pathways for applications). Also, HTTP(S) (port 80 or 443 by default) is literally "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" so it's fair to say it was designed to carry HTML.