In this section, you will learn about sockets, which are the main component that allows us to take advantage of the operating system's capabilities to interact with the network. You can think of sockets as a point-to-point communication channel between a client and a server.
Basics of sockets
Sockets introduction
Sockets are the basis of IP, but we can also use them to take advantage of it, that is, through sockets, we can make two applications communicate with each other. A socket in programming is a communication tunnel that helps two applications to communicate and are the basis of the internet and its protocols, such as HTTP, FTP, and SMTP.
This mechanism emerged in the early 80s with the Unix system at Berkeley,...
