This chapter served as a major paradigm shift for our understanding of network programming. We looked at how the responsibilities of the transport layer are wholly distinct from those of the application layer and we took an extremely close look at just what those transport layer responsibilities are. We learned that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has classified the various approaches to transport layer responsibilities based around the services and features a protocol might support, and how we can use those classifications to determine the best circumstances in which to employ a given transport layer protocol.
Next, we learned how connection-based protocols, such as TCP, use preliminary handshakes between clients and servers to establish an active connection, or session, between two hosts prior to the transmission of any data between the two. We saw how these...
