Just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
You also have to consider security.
various differences, and reasonings for those differences.
You could find the solutions to the questions you ask if you simply went searching for the answers about ports, udp, tcp, ssl, tls, and etc. In fact, chat gpt will effectively answer most of these such questions and thus help you with understanding these things.

In T181594#2614068, @operativo wrote:

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