Sep 30, 2008 · Sockets have been in widespread use since the early 1980s. A port represents an endpoint or "channel" for network communications. Port numbers allow different applications on the …

9 According to "TCP/IP Sockets in C-Practical Guide for Programmers" by Michael J. Doonahoo & Kenneth L. Calvert (Chptr 1, Section 1.4, Pg 7): A socket is an abstraction through which an …

I'm building web app that needs to communicate with another application using socket connections. This is new territory for me, so want to be sure that sockets are different than websockets. It se...

Jun 5, 2013 · Trying to understand as best as I can the differences between TCP socket and websocket, I've already found a lot of useful information within these questions: fundamental difference between …

Feb 27, 2013 · What is the difference between socket programming and Http programming? can anyone help please?

Jan 14, 2011 · What's the difference between sockets (stream) and sockets (datagrams)? Why use one over the other?

I have written a small program that interacts with a server on a specific port. The program works fine, but: Once the program terminated unexpectedly, and ever since that socket connection is show...

Feb 8, 2013 · In every layer, a packet has two disjoint sections: Header and Payload. non-Raw socket means you can just determine Transport Layer Payload. i.e it is the OS' task to create the Transport, …

Jan 17, 2012 · It is suspected that it might be holding too many of those sockets without releasing them. Is there a way to find the number of socket handles the application is holding to in Windows?

There is a limit, yes. See ulimit. In addition, you need to consider the TIME_WAIT state. Once a TCP socket is closed (by default) the port remains occupied in TIME_WAIT status for 2 minutes. This …