What is the technology behind port numbers?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I know that port numbers are used for identifying different processes running on a server, so that multiple processes can use the same https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/networking">networking resources. But how does it work internally?

For example, if a request to a website http://www.my-awesome-website.com:80 reaches a server, how does the server know that there is a web server running on port 80? I mean, what does the request pipeline look like between getting the request to finding out that a web server is running on port 80 and forwarding the request to the web server?