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The Cloudflare Blog·Mar 20, 2023·22 min read60

The quantum state of a TCP port

If I navigate to https://blog.cloudflare.com/, my browser will connect to a remote TCP address from the local IP address assigned to my machine, and a randomly chosen local TCP port. What happens if I then decide to head to another site?

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