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by Tepix 41 days ago
As bandie pointed out, you‘re explicitly making a http request. Duh.

nc is for generic connections and handles it well.
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pratyahava 41 days ago
i know, but the OP's goal was to host/access http(s) services with names and avoid port numbers, and gopher service name was chosen by me as an example. my point was that /etc/services cannot be used for the OP's need.

if you host an http(s) service on port 11111 you can reach it with url http://127.1:11111, but url http://127.1:vce/ would not work in most software.

  $ grep 11111 /etc/services
  vce  11111/udp   # Viral Computing Environment (VCE)
  vce  11111/tcp   # Viral Computing Environment (VCE)
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mrhottakes 41 days ago
If I curl my phone number it doesn't connect, that's strange
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pratyahava 40 days ago
can you please explain what you mean by this? because technically i do not see any similarity in this "analogy".
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Tepix 41 days ago
But if you want to contact vce, why use „http“? It‘s not going to work
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SAI_Peregrinus 41 days ago
Try http://127.0.0.1:hkp instead of http://127.0.0.1:11371 for an OpenPGP HTTP keyserver. HTTP will work, but using the service name won't. Does that make what they're trying to say clearer?
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pratyahava 40 days ago
the question was "can we use port names from /etc/services instead of port numbers?"

how about "ssh://git@ssh.github.com:https/golang/go.git" instead of "ssh://git@ssh.github.com:443/golang/go.git"? does not work, hmm.

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