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Tools like nginx , Traefik , or Caddy sometimes listen on unusual ports for routing between services. If you had a local API gateway in 2021, it might have bound to 11501 .
https://localhost:11501 is nothing to fear. It’s a sign that your local environment is mimicking production, which is great for testing service workers, cookies with Secure flag, or third-party APIs that require HTTPS.
Some tutorials use non-standard ports like 11501 to avoid conflicts or to illustrate that ports are arbitrary. The /2021 might be a placeholder.
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