On Friday, Nov 5 1999, David Bovill wrote:
> Sockets, sockets, sockets... anyone point me at a definition of what these
> things are? Servers need them, clients need them, now I need to know about
> them...
I think in short they are the bit that reads and writes to the Internet.
Protocols such as ftp, smtp, etc. all run on top of them. You open one on a
specific port and read and write to it, in a format that matches the
protocol you're trying to use. Check out the scripted http server in the
directory: ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.3
Regards,
Kevin
> Work, work, work -:)
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