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 …

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

struct sockaddr { unsigned short sa_family; // address family, AF_xxx char sa_data[14]; // 14 bytes of protocol address }; In this structure what exactly is the meaning address ...

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 ?

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 …

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 …

I've found the following pages helpful - IPC performance: Named Pipe vs Socket (in particular) and Sockets vs named pipes for local IPC on Windows?. It sounds like the concensus is that …

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 …

This function watches sets sockets and waits for something noteworthy to happen. For sockets in the first list, "noteworthy" means that the socket has data available for reading.

Sockets are just one of the methods for communicating and is useful if you have to implement one-to-many connection. Means, one server process which communicates with many client …