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...

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 purpose of ports is to differentiate multiple endpoints on a given network address. You could say that a port is a virtualised endpoint.

112 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 sent out, and data received from the network can be read from the socket. Sockets are similar to pipes. Both look like files to the programs ...

Here is the simplest python socket example. Server side: import socket serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) serversocket.bind(('localhost', 8089)) serversocket.listen(5) # become a server socket, maximum 5 connections while True: connection, address = serversocket.accept() buf = connection.recv(64) if len(buf) > 0: print buf break Client …

I'm relatively new to node.js and it's addons, so this is probably a beginnersquestion. I'm trying to get a simple HTML page on a webserver connect to a different server running node.js with webso...

Feb 20, 2019 · I'm doing an assignment regarding socket programming in python using a client and server. I'm currently on windows 10. Before getting into the little details of the assignment, I've been trying to ...

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Oct 9, 2009 · How do you make a socket non-blocking? I am aware of the fcntl() function, but I've heard it's not always reliable.

Aug 22, 2014 · I have a socket-connection going on and I wanna improve the exception handling and I'm stuck. Whenever I call socket.connect(server_address) with an invalid argument the program stops, but doesn't ...

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 shutdown is not needed.