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Why is System listening on port 8000?

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Mar 15, 202627557 views

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I noticed by accident today that I have some unknown webserver listening on port 8000. Opening http://localhost:8000 just returns 404, so I don’t get any hint what exactly is listening there. I’ve used to find out, that the process with PID 4 is listening on that port. PID 4 is the System process. …

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IIRC, any program that uses the HTTP Server API to run an HTTP server on Windows will have that service charged to the System process because it's running through the kernel's server. You can see the registered URLs by running the following command:…

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Why is System listening on port 8000?

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