Understanding the socket package for network requests
Sockets are the main components that allow us to leverage the capabilities of an operating system to interact with a network. You may regard sockets as a point-to-point channel of communication between a client and a server.
Network sockets are a simple way of establishing communication between processes on the same machines or on different ones. The socket concept is very similar to the use of file descriptors for UNIX operating systems. Commands such as read() and write() for working with files have similar behavior to dealing with sockets. A socket address for a network consists of an IP address and port number. A socket’s aim is to communicate processes over the network.
Network sockets in Python
When two applications or processes interact, they use a specific communication channel. Sockets are the endpoints or entry points of these communication channels. We can use sockets to establish a communication channel...
