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Here's the requisite cynical comment lamenting the death of "standards".

They could easily have implemented RFC 3091 [0], but instead they chose to create yet another proprietary API with vendor lock in, just as cloud service providers love to do.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3091

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Mentioned above RFC specifies port number 314159 which is greater than possible max 65535. So once again unrealistic standards that does not work force people to invent something sane. /s

That is only a problem if you insist that Windows 3.1 is the best operating system in existence and if you are therefore unwilling to upgrade to Windows 95. The future is 32 bit, move on.

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