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Isn't this what the SRV[1] record type is designed to solve generically?

Getting adoption at the client end is likely the limiting factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

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Yes it is. For some reason supporting SRV for HTTP is too hard https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328

For gods sake. Open since 1999!?

This bug/request has been sitting since last century.

It looks like one of those bugs requesting a new feature that sits there for years until Chrome implements the same feature (in a Google-specific partial way). Only then Mozilla rushes to implement it, but at that point it is too late and Google takes all the merit for leading the web forward.

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