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 …

The Socket.IO module available for node.js can help a lot, but note that it is not a pure WebSocket module in its own right. It's actually a more generic communications module that can run on top of …

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 …

Feb 27, 2013 · 2 Socket programming is a kind of middleware, residing between the application layer and the TCP layer. It's able to carry anything present in the application layer; even HTTP data.

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 …

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 OS …

Apr 27, 2010 · In socket.recv () Python (2.6) calls select/poll internally with the timeout and then recv () is called right after. So if you use a blocking socket and between these 2 calls the other end point …

Feb 24, 2018 · 1 The Docker daemon binds to a Unix socket instead of a TCP port. By default that Unix socket is owned by the user root and other users can only access it using sudo. The Docker daemon …

Here is the simplest python socket example. Server side: import socket serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) serversocket.bind(('localhost', 8089)) …