Client and server applications connect through methods defined by Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol -- or TCP/IP -- standards.

TCP/IP Client / Server Application Hello! Today's blog post will be about coding a very rudimentary Client and Server application duo, which will communicate by using TCP Sockets.

External components can access the server via a TCP connection. Since both IRC client and other IRC servers use similar messages, a unified ‘IrcApi’ for both external component types is used.