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 to...

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). The …

Jan 3, 2009 · sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR) sock.close() What exactly is the purpose of calling shutdown on the socket and then closing it? If it makes a difference, this socket is being used for non …

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 socket, you …

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 top of …

Oct 24, 2013 · 14 java.net.SocketException socket is closed This exception means that you closed the socket, and then continued to try to use it.

Nov 14, 2012 · Do socket descriptors share this array with file descriptors, but the pointer instead refers to a socket. Or is there something else that's only used for sockets? Is this array unique to every …

Are these 2 concepts refer to the same thing? Do they have difference? In my opinion, they are different, and socket connection is based on tcp connection. A socket contains an IP address and port...

Dec 5, 2014 · I am trying to connect to one Linux server from a client, openssl s_client -connect <IP of Server>:443 I am getting the following error: socket: Connection refused connect:errno=111

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.