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List of restricted ports for mobile devices and operating systems?

I'm trying to obscure a normal http soap call to a device so that it doesn't use port 80. My only reason why is that the device doesn't do https.

So I picked a random port (43) to address an intermediate server to send the message and discovered that the port is blocked on iOS and android.

Is there a list that is readily accessible?

Solution

  • List of TCP and UDP port numbers (wikipedia)

    Port 43 is WHOIS protocol.

    A port number in a high range is usually safe, say a number over 10000. Port numbers are 16bit numbers so they go up to 65535.