What is SOCKET in TCPIP ?

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  Anoop Kumar

  May be you know about it.. but I am adding here.
  Sockets are nothing but communication between two protocols.
  All the web-services works on basics of sockets using api's which makes socket programming very easy.
  Like video chatting from android phone while other person desktop.
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  rahul69

  godfather

  What is SOCKET in TCPIP ?
  Can anyone explain with real examples ?

  You may get different answers for this question depending on the context, In my opinion, Socket is a file descriptor (yup 😀), just that it is used on the network rather than on the local system.We use Socket() function to create a socket, then we bind that socket, with some address and port, and then use it to send and receive data. That's pretty much about socket, rest are minute working and implementation details which may depend on language being used etc..😀
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  Harshad Italiya

  TCPIPCLIENT is one type of SOCKET right ?
  
  When we Open CrazyEngineers it opens one socket on the server right?
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  rahul69

  godfather

  TCPIPCLIENT is one type of SOCKET right ?
  
  When we Open CrazyEngineers it opens one socket on the server right?

  I don't know about TCPIPCLIENT. Could u give me a link to it?. And yes it does opens the socket when we connect to it.
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  Harshad Italiya

  rahul69

  I don't know about TCPIPCLIENT. Could u give me a link to it?. And yes it does opens the socket when we connect to it.

  Sorry my mistake I mean HTTP Client.