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...

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...

A Unix domain socket (UDS), a.k.a. local socket, a.k.a. inter-process communication (IPC) socket, is a communication endpoint for exchanging data between...

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...

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

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...

the AppleTalk networking protocol suite. Its main responsibility is for socket-to-socket delivery of datagrams over an AppleTalk network. Note: All application-level...

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