Sure. I decided for this title because that's what my students google — the post is in my budding series primarily for my students at a coding bootcamp ❤️
Luckily, if you stop the application, the port will be released. The title says How to properly close a port?, not how to kill a process. What if you want the keep the process running but don't want to listen on that port anymore?
It's not closing a port, but stopping a process. You close ports using firewall usually.
Sure. I decided for this title because that's what my students google — the post is in my budding series primarily for my students at a coding bootcamp ❤️
When a process is killed, the ports are automatically Freed.
When I was doing TCP up connection I Freed same port for reuse using this method itself.
Luckily, if you stop the application, the port will be released. The title says How to properly close a port?, not how to kill a process. What if you want the keep the process running but don't want to listen on that port anymore?
I don't think it is possible to free a port held by a process without killing the same process.