Socket programming boils down to two systems communicating with one another. Generally, network communication comes in two flavors: Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

Hi folks - I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code.

In .NET 2.0, the System.Net.Sockets.Socket class now includes a SendTimeout parameter, so you could easily handle it if you upgraded. If you want to do it in 1.1, then you will probably have to ...

Network programming is usually done with sockets. A socket serves as a communication end point between two processes. In this article, we describe network programming with TCP/IP sockets. Server ...

As ubiquitous as TCP/IP is, network programming interfaces have hardly advanced since the invention of the “Berkeley sockets” low-level networking API.

Published: September 26, 2023 8:25am EDT APIs, or application programming interfaces, are the gateways to the digital world. They link a wide array of software applications and systems.