This question already has answers here: What is the fundamental difference between WebSockets and pure TCP? (4 answers) Closed 3 years ago. 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 websockets and pure TCP … Read more
Assuming the following is defined in …/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost What, if any, are the actual differences between using 127.0.0.1 and localhost as the server name, especially when hitting processes running locally that are listening for connections? 5 Answers 5
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 seems like they’re only conceptually similar. Asking because initially I’d planned on using Django as the foundation for my project, but in the … Read more
I’m getting started on socket programming, and I keep seeing this AF_INET. Yet, I’ve never seen anything else used in its place. My lecturers are not that helpful and just say “You just need it”. So my questions: What is the purpose of AF_INET? Is anything else ever used instead of it? If not, why … Read more
Can two applications on the same machine bind to the same port and IP address? Taking it a step further, can one app listen to requests coming from a certain IP and the other to another remote IP? I know I can have one application that starts off two threads (or forks) to have similar … Read more
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? 2 s 2
