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Not really if the socket is bound to localhost and the process runs on my machine :).


... But eBay could.


How? Ebay could send HTTP requests to the local server but what would that achieve?



Unless I am missing something, a port scan is not a telnet connection. I still don't see how eBay (or anyone) has access through the browser.




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