IT professionals who seek to understand how sockets work can follow this advice: Practice a lot, and implement proofs of concept that help one understand sockets at a low level. Socket programming ...

If you want to go beyond a simple client you need to make use of a more general network connection method. The usual way of doing this is to make use of “sockets”. This is a widely supported internet ...

* Extracts from the first edition not yet updated. Sockets are a general-purpose way of communicating over networks and similar infrastructure. Essentially they are a generalization of files to things ...