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You'd have to implement a TCP server listening on a privileged port (< 1024). Surely no browser would allow this.

I'm not sure about windows, but on all the un*xes I know you need to be root (or have the right capabilities) to create a port with number < 1024. So even if the browser doesn't enforce this, the OS should.

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