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 …

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). …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Here is an excerpt from socket.io client source secure: 'https' == uri.protocol (version 0.9.16), it sets secure option to true if https is detected in the url.

I've been trying to wrap my head around how sockets work, and I've been trying to pick apart some sample code I found at this page for a very simple client socket program. Since this is …

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 …

What are the differences between Socket.IO and websockets in Node.js? Are they both server push technologies? The only differences I felt was, Socket.IO allowed me to send/emit …