TCP Socket

Creator

Creator

Seonglae Cho

Created

Created

2020 Feb 3 13:33

Editor

Editor

Seonglae Cho

Edited

Edited

2023 Oct 23 16:7

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Communication Interface

Unlike

UDP Socket, client socket need to

connect() , server socket need to

listen() and source IP address and port number are also identifier. When contacted by client, server TCP creates new socket for server

So demux process use all four values tuple for directing segment to appropriate socket.

There is no single TCP implementation and they are compatible with message format

TCP Socket Notion

TCP Socket History

TCP Welcome socket

TCP connection socket

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CloudFlare Workers

Announcing connect() — a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers

Today, we are excited to announce a new API in Cloudflare Workers for creating outbound TCP sockets, making it possible to connect directly to databases and any TCP-based service from Workers

Announcing connect() — a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-tcp-socket-api-connect-databases/

Announcing connect() — a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers

What they don't teach you about sockets

In order to effectively write applications that communicate via sockets, there were some realizations I needed to make that weren't explicitly told to me by any of the documentation I read. If you have experience writing applications using sockets, all of this information should be obvious to you.

What they don't teach you about sockets

https://macoy.me/blog/programming/Sockets

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