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Port 80 is for HTTP and HTTP alone. This is enforced at all levels of the Internet. Quite simply, if it isn't HTTP, it isn't port 80.

And I don't know why doing that in Norton works: maybe Norton's just buggy.

And if you doubt 80 is always HTTP:
Official IANA Port Number Assignment List
IANA = Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

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finger           79/tcp    Finger
finger           79/udp    Finger
#                          David Zimmerman <dpz@RUTGERS.EDU>
http             80/tcp    World Wide Web HTTP
http             80/udp    World Wide Web HTTP
www              80/tcp    World Wide Web HTTP
www              80/udp    World Wide Web HTTP
www-http         80/tcp    World Wide Web HTTP
www-http         80/udp    World Wide Web HTTP
#                          Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@W3.org>
hosts2-ns        81/tcp    HOSTS2 Name Server
hosts2-ns        81/udp    HOSTS2 Name Server

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