Sep 30, 2008 · Sockets have been in widespread use since the early 1980s. A port represents an endpoint or "channel" for network communications. Port numbers allow different applications on the …

Jun 5, 2013 · Trying to understand as best as I can the differences between TCP socket and websocket, I've already found a lot of useful information within these questions: fundamental difference between …

I'm building web app that needs to communicate with another application using socket connections. This is new territory for me, so want to be sure that sockets are different than websockets. It se...

Feb 27, 2013 · What is the difference between socket programming and Http programming? can anyone help please?

Jan 14, 2011 · What's the difference between sockets (stream) and sockets (datagrams)? Why use one over the other?

Jan 17, 2012 · It is suspected that it might be holding too many of those sockets without releasing them. Is there a way to find the number of socket handles the application is holding to in Windows?

There is a limit, yes. See ulimit. In addition, you need to consider the TIME_WAIT state. Once a TCP socket is closed (by default) the port remains occupied in TIME_WAIT status for 2 minutes. This …

Jan 18, 2015 · System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.BeginSend(Byte[] …

Sockets are just one of the methods for communicating and is useful if you have to implement one-to-many connection. Means, one server process which communicates with many client processes in a …

Sep 16, 2009 · What is the meaning of the "connection reset by peer" error on a TCP connection? Is it a fatal error or just a notification or related to the network failure?