• A network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the...
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  • released in 1983. A socket is an abstract representation (handle) for the local endpoint of a network communication path. The Berkeley sockets API represents...
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  • A Unix domain socket (UDS), a.k.a. local socket, a.k.a. inter-process communication (IPC) socket, is a communication endpoint for exchanging data between...
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  • ports onto the network, and forwarding arriving network packets to processes by matching the packet's IP address and port number to a socket. For TCP, only...
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  • Winsock (redirect from Windows Sockets)
    the Windows Sockets API (WSA), later shortened to Winsock, is an application programming interface (API) that defines how Windows network application...
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    WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing a simultaneous two-way communication channel over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)...
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    IP address/protocol/port number triple defines an association with a network socket. For publicly accessible services such as web and mail servers the port...
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    AC power plugs and sockets connect devices to mains electricity to supply them with electrical power. A plug is the connector attached to an electrically...
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  • Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-490012-X "Chapter 12 - Network Programming". COMP1406 (PDF)...
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  • is pulled Ball and socket joint Network socket, an end-point in a communication across a network or the Internet Unix domain socket, an end-point in local...
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  • (handle) for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket. File descriptors typically have non-negative integer values, with negative...
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  • Ethernet network socket (center), to the left a part of the VGA port, to the right (upper) a display port socket, to the right (lower) a USB-A socket....
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  • The C10k problem is the problem of optimizing network sockets to handle a large number of clients at the same time. The name C10k is a numeronym for concurrently...
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    Netstat (category Unix network-related software)
    netstat is a command-line network utility that displays open network sockets, routing tables, and a number of network interface (network interface controller...
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    Java. The number of available ports to combine with a network address to create a network socket. The maximum character limit for one message in WhatsApp...
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  • Trumpet Winsock (category Network socket)
    Windows 3.x that implemented the Winsock API, which is an API for network sockets. It was developed by Peter Tattam from Trumpet Software International...
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  • Datagram Delivery Protocol (category Network layer protocols)
    the AppleTalk networking protocol suite. Its main responsibility is for socket-to-socket delivery of datagrams over an AppleTalk network. Note: All application-level...
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  • RSocket (category Network socket)
    a binary protocol for use on byte stream transports such as TCP and WebSocket. It enables the following symmetric interaction models via async message...
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  • processing. If database performance is of concern, alternatives include sockets, network socket, or message queue. British computer scientist, Junade Ali, defined...
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  • the free dictionary. Binding may refer to: Binding, associating a network socket with a local port number and IP address Data binding, the technique...
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  • TMI. TMI implemented the first InterMUD communications network, when MudOS added network socket support in 1992. In 1992, MIRE, a multi-user information...
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  • where data comes from an untrusted source--for example, user input or a network socket. A "trust boundary violation" refers to a vulnerability where computer...
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    balancing in that load balancing divides traffic between network interfaces on per network socket (layer 4) basis, while channel bonding implies a division...
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  • the network connection to the application typically through a network socket interface. At the lower levels of the protocol stack, due to network congestion...
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  • allows to debug processes on a different computer. It can work over a network socket or through shared memory. The protocol is implemented in the software...
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    Codata Data stream Data stream mining Traffic flow (computer networking) Network socket Streaming algorithm Streaming media Stream processing SRFI 41:...
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    Plugs and sockets for electrical appliances not hardwired to mains electricity originated in the United Kingdom in the 1870s and were initially two-pin...
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    the source and destination IP address, the port numbers constitute a network socket, i.e. an identification address of the process-to-process communication...
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    is an obsolete connection standard for network plugs and sockets used in the early 1990s. Ethernet networking of this period (mid 1980s to mid 1990s)...
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  • Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) is a high-performance, low-latency, reliable, connectionless protocol for delivering datagrams. It is developed by Oracle...
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