
What is the difference between a port and a socket?
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). …
networking - What is a socket? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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 …
python - socket.shutdown vs socket.close - Stack Overflow
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 …
Postman : socket hang up - Stack Overflow
Jun 8, 2017 · I've read a few post regarding socket hang up and it mention about sending a request and there's no response from the server side and probably timeout. How do I extend …
UDP Client/Server Socket in Python - Stack Overflow
I am trying to write an echoing client/server socket. I have written the server so that 30% of the packets are lost. I programmed my client to timeout after one second since the packet could …
Difference between socket and websocket? - Stack Overflow
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 …
Is there a way for multiple processes to share a listening socket?
Mar 22, 2009 · In socket programming, you create a listening socket and then for each client that connects, you get a normal stream socket that you can use to handle the client's request. The …
Differences between socket.io and websockets - Stack Overflow
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 …
Socket.IO handling disconnect event - Stack Overflow
The server side code that emits this disconnected event is inside the disconnect event callback which is fired when the socket loses connection. Since the socket already lost connection, …
Basic Python client socket example - Stack Overflow
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 …