113 A socket is a pseudo-file that represents a network connection. Once a socket has been created (identifying the other host and port), writes to that socket are turned into network …

I don't know exactly what socket means. A server runs on a specific computer and has a socket that is bound to a specific port number. The server just waits, listening to the socket for a client …

Sep 30, 2008 · An endpoint (socket) is defined by the combination of a network address and a port identifier. Note that address/port does not completely identify a socket (more on this later). …

Jul 16, 2025 · AF_INET is an a ddress f amily that is used to designate the type of addresses that your socket can communicate with (in this case, Internet Protocol v4 addresses). When you …

The server side code that emits this disconnected event is inside the disconnect event callback which is fired when the socket loses connection. Since the socket already lost connection, …

Jan 3, 2009 · Most socket libraries, however, are so used to programmers neglecting to use this piece of etiquette that normally a close is the same as shutdown(); close(). So in most …

I've been trying to wrap my head around how sockets work, and I've been trying to pick apart some sample code I found at this page for a very simple client socket program. Since this is …

The Socket.IO module available for node.js can help a lot, but note that it is not a pure WebSocket module in its own right. It's actually a more generic communications module that can run on …

Jul 16, 2012 · What's the difference between these two? I noticed that if I changed from socket.emit to socket.send in a working program, the server failed to receive the message, …

OSError: [WinError 10038] an operation was attempted on something that is not a socket