Sep 30, 2008 · Sockets have been in widespread use since the early 1980s. A port represents an endpoint or "channel" for network communications. Port numbers allow different applications on the …

I'm building web app that needs to communicate with another application using socket connections. This is new territory for me, so want to be sure that sockets are different than websockets. It se...

Jun 5, 2013 · Trying to understand as best as I can the differences between TCP socket and websocket, I've already found a lot of useful information within these questions: fundamental difference between …

Feb 27, 2013 · Sockets on the other hand are an API that most operating systems provide to be able to talk with the network. The socket API supports different protocols from the transport layer and down.

Jan 14, 2011 · What's the difference between sockets (stream) and sockets (datagrams)? Why use one over the other?

Jan 17, 2012 · It is suspected that it might be holding too many of those sockets without releasing them. Is there a way to find the number of socket handles the application is holding to in Windows?

Oct 10, 2010 · Send string "ABCDEFG" to server 10.10.10.1 on port UDP 5000 Receive response from server 10.10.10.1 I am relatively familiar with PowerShell, but this is my first time having to deal with …

There is a limit, yes. See ulimit. In addition, you need to consider the TIME_WAIT state. Once a TCP socket is closed (by default) the port remains occupied in TIME_WAIT status for 2 minutes. This …

Sep 16, 2009 · What is the meaning of the "connection reset by peer" error on a TCP connection? Is it a fatal error or just a notification or related to the network failure?

System.Net.Sockets Verbose: 0 : [8188] Socket#30180123::Send() DateTime=2010-04-07T20:49:48.6317500Z System.Net.Sockets Error: 0 : [8188] Exception in the …