Network socket
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network-socket-166-10958163
title:
Network socket
text:
A network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network. The structure and properties of a socket are defined by an application programming interface (API) for the networking architecture. Sockets are created only during the lifetime of a process of an application running in the node. Because of the standardization of the TCP/IP protocols in the development of the Internet, the term network
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Software-based endpoint of network communications
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket
date created:
2006-04-15T23:52:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T21:48:25Z
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