Because TCP guarantees delivery, it is the protocol of choice for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, and so forth. In this tutorial, I introduce you to socket programming in Java. I present a series of client ...

As ubiquitous as TCP/IP is, network programming interfaces have hardly advanced since the invention of the “Berkeley sockets” low-level networking API. A developer who wants to build e-mail ...

A socket serves as a communication end point between two processes. In this article, we describe network programming with TCP/IP sockets. Server programs create sockets, bind to well-known ports, ...

If a filter has been attached to it with a setsockopt() system call, the appropriate field inside the structure is not NULL, and the TCP receive function knows that it has to call sk_filter(). For ...

FRANKLIN, MA: Riverace Corporation has released its new white paper, "How to Avoid the Top Ten Sockets Programming Errors" aimed at developers and software managers. The "How to Avoid the Top Ten ...

In .NET 2.0, the System.Net.Sockets.Socket class now includes a SendTimeout parameter, so you could easily handle it if you upgraded. If you want to do it in 1.1, then you will probably have to ...