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...

released in 1983. A socket is an abstract representation (handle) for the local endpoint of a network communication path. The Berkeley sockets API represents...

systems. The API for Unix domain sockets is similar to that of an Internet socket, but rather than using an underlying network protocol, all communication...

ports onto the network, and forwarding arriving network packets to processes by matching the packet's IP address and port number to a socket. For TCP, only...

WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing a simultaneous two-way communication channel over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)...

is pulled Ball and socket joint Network socket, an end-point in a communication across a network or the Internet Unix domain socket, an end-point in local...

the Windows Sockets API (WSA), later shortened to Winsock, is an application programming interface (API) that defines how Windows network application...

IP address/protocol/port number triple defines an association with a network socket. For publicly accessible services such as web and mail servers the port...

Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-490012-X "Chapter 12 - Network Programming". COMP1406 (PDF)...

(handle) for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket. File descriptors typically have non-negative integer values, with negative...