allow HTTPS on non-standard ports, dangerous ?

The sample configuration file that comes with the Squid caching proxy
server disallows HTTPS (method connect) on non-standard ports (443 & 563).

What's the idea? How dangerous would it be to allow random ports with HTTPS?

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