Top "Port" questions

A port is a communication end-point in the context of network communications or an interaction point for inter-component interactions.

How do I find which program is using port 80 in Windows?

How do I find which program is using port 80 in Windows? I can't find it.

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What is the difference between ports 465 and 587?

These ports 465 and 587 are both used for sending mail (submitting mail) but what is the real difference between them?

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Port 80 is being used by SYSTEM (PID 4), what is that?

I am trying to use port 80 for my application server, but when I perform netstat -aon I get: TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4 …

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Test if remote TCP port is open from a shell script

I'm looking for a quick and simple method for properly testing if a given TCP port is open on a …

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How do I assign a port mapping to an existing Docker container?

I'm not sure if I've misunderstood something here, but it seems like it's only possible to set port mappings by …

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What is the difference between a port and a socket?

This was a question raised by one of the software engineers in my organisation. I'm interested in the broadest definition.

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How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows?

I installed XAMPP 1.6.8 and for some reason it didn't work. Later realized port 80 is not free or not listening. How …

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Efficiently test if a port is open on Linux?

From a bash script how can I quickly find out whether a port 445 is open/listening on a server. I …

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How do I get Flask to run on port 80?

I have a Flask server running through port 5000, and it's fine. I can access it at http://example.com:5000 But …

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#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

This might seem redundant but I was unable to find a correct solution. I was unable to login to mysql …

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