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The Socket Class
Example 1
Example 2

What's a Socket?

When a client program wishes to connect to a host machine, on a specific port number, using TCP, it makes a connection request using a socket.

A socket is a low-level communication mechanism on which other, higher level, protocols are based. Sockets are both client-side and server-side.