Sockets are a mechanism that allows programs to communicate, either on the same machine or across a network. The way it works is pretty simple: Each machine on a network is identified by some address. In this tutorial we will talk about tcp/ip networking, so by network address we mean an IP address. (like 192.168.4.4) Apart from the IP address that specifies a machine, each machine has a number of ports that allow handling multiple connections simultaneously.

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HTTP is a client-server protocol by which two machines can communicate over a tcp/ip connection. An HTTP server is a program that sits listening on a machine's port for HTTP requests. An HTTP client (we will be using the terms HTTP client and web client interchangeably) opens a tcp/ip connection to the server via a socket, transmits a request for a document, then waits for a reply from the server. Once the request-reply sequence is completed, the socket is closed. So the HTTP protocol is a transactional one. The lifetime of a connection corresponds to a single request-reply sequence. (a transaction)

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