Stanford researchers find only 3% of HTTP runs on port 80 [pdf]

Re:Stanford researchers find only 3% of HTTP runs on port 80... by horsawlarway on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:18AM (#34995269)

The initial RFC for SNI is 20 years old this year. It's been in OpenSSL for 19 years.

Plus - Unless the client is outside of a browser context, you can drop an nginx instance in front of the service without the service having any clue.

Throw a load balancer in front and it's probably much more robust than a single service.

Honestly - reverse proxy support is one of the more magical parts of http.

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Re:Stanford researchers find only 3% of HTTP runs on port 80... by oakwhiz on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:40AM (#35007209)

You're assuming that people are going to use the smartest "best practice" way to do things from your perspective. This is not often what actually happens. If you're able to have this happen in a production environment, with no conflicts with other things or other people around you, count yourself lucky...

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