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 …

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...

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 …

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 …

Apr 21, 2015 · I have written a little Powershell script. It uses .Net System.IO.StreamReader and System.IO.StreamWriter to read and write data from/to the TCP socket. I would like to connect to a …

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[] …

Sep 16, 2009 · It's fatal. The remote server has sent you a RST packet, which indicates an immediate dropping of the connection, rather than the usual handshake. This bypasses the normal half-closed …