I don't know exactly what socket means. A server runs on a specific computer and has a socket that is bound to a specific port number. The server just waits, listening to the socket for a client to...

113 A socket is a pseudo-file that represents a network connection. Once a socket has been created (identifying the other host and port), writes to that socket are turned into network packets that get …

Sep 30, 2008 · An endpoint (socket) is defined by the combination of a network address and a port identifier. Note that address/port does not completely identify a socket (more on this later). The …

Jan 3, 2009 · Most socket libraries, however, are so used to programmers neglecting to use this piece of etiquette that normally a close is the same as shutdown(); close(). So in most situations, an explicit …

I've been trying to wrap my head around how sockets work, and I've been trying to pick apart some sample code I found at this page for a very simple client socket program. Since this is basic sampl...

May 30, 2012 · So I am working on an iPhone app that requires a socket to handle multiple clients for online gaming. I have tried Twisted, and with much effort, I have failed to get a bunch of info to be …

AF_INET is an a ddress f amily that is used to designate the type of addresses that your socket can communicate with (in this case, Internet Protocol v4 addresses). When you create a socket, you …

What are the differences between Socket.IO and websockets in Node.js? Are they both server push technologies? The only differences I felt was, Socket.IO allowed me to send/emit messages by …

Apr 27, 2010 · The typical approach is to use select () to wait until data is available or until the timeout occurs. Only call recv() when data is actually available. To be safe, we also set the socket to non …

Jul 13, 2009 · From what I gathered, Raw Socket usage in Python is nearly identical in semantics to UNIX's raw socket, but without the struct s that define the packets structure. I was wondering if it …