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 ...

TCP/IP network programming in C on Linux is good fun ... you must use non-blocking TCP sockets. Listing 1 shows a simple code fragment using non-blocking sockets for network read and write. Listing 1.

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 ...