Advantages of Using Port 80
Some of the benefits of using port 80 are:
- Port 80 enables the transmission of data in plain text format.
- Port 80 is used in the web servers, web browsers, etc.
- The port 80 helps to easily identify the web addresses.
- Configuring the web servers to work on Port 80 is very easy.
What is Port 80?
Whenever someone tries to access a website and its content then the port 80 is used for that purpose but how does the computer know it needs to use the port 80? and how is data sent to the browsers using this port. For that, we need to understand what is port 80.