I was studying socket programming and certain questions came to my mind. These are some beginner level doubts Is it mandatory to to use well known port for a particular application. For example if i am using ssl, can i design a server to listen on 1000 rather than 443. For http we are connecting to port 80 from some other arbitrary port. Whys no port 80 to port 80 communcation. how a server responds to connections coming to it from different ports to its port 80. how many connections are possible to a particul