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  1. What is the difference between a port and a socket?

    Sep 30, 2008 · Sockets have been in widespread use since the early 1980s. A port represents an endpoint or "channel" for network communications. Port numbers allow different applications …

  2. What exactly is Socket - Stack Overflow

    9 According to "TCP/IP Sockets in C-Practical Guide for Programmers" by Michael J. Doonahoo & Kenneth L. Calvert (Chptr 1, Section 1.4, Pg 7): A socket is an abstraction through which an …

  3. 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 …

  4. Differences between TCP sockets and web sockets, one more time

    Jun 5, 2013 · Trying to understand as best as I can the differences between TCP socket and websocket, I've already found a lot of useful information within these questions: fundamental …

  5. Socket Programming in C++ - Stack Overflow

    Can anybody provide me some sample example on Client and server connection using sockets in C++. I have gone through some tutorials now i want to implement it. How to start ?

  6. sockets - What's the difference between streams and datagrams in ...

    Jan 14, 2011 · What's the difference between sockets (stream) and sockets (datagrams)? Why use one over the other?

  7. sockets - Is there a limit on number of tcp/ip connections between ...

    There is a limit, yes. See ulimit. In addition, you need to consider the TIME_WAIT state. Once a TCP socket is closed (by default) the port remains occupied in TIME_WAIT status for 2 …

  8. How do I remove a CLOSE_WAIT socket connection - Stack Overflow

    I have written a small program that interacts with a server on a specific port. The program works fine, but: Once the program terminated unexpectedly, and ever since that socket connection is …

  9. sockets - C# An established connection was aborted by the …

    Jan 18, 2015 · System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine at …

  10. Can two applications listen to the same port? - Stack Overflow

    Multiple accepted sockets can co-exist, all accepted from the same listening socket, all showing the same local port number as the listening socket. Multiple UDP sockets all bound to the …