UDP Port 8080 – HTTP Alternate (alt-HTTP)

About UDP Port 8080

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) registers port 8080 for http-alt. The IANA description reads: ‘HTTP Alternate (see port 80)’. This port appears in 0 IDS rules and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.

Data Sources

This information is compiled from: IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry, Emerging Threats Open Ruleset (BSD 2-Clause / GPLv2 per SID range), Snort Community Rules (GPLv2), and MITRE ATT&CK (Apache 2.0).