RE: Socket problem on V4R5

["Barnes, Edward V. (RPW)" <EVBarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you all for your answers, I have some good information to go on and
hope this will lead me in the right direction. 
Again Thanks to all

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 9:13 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Socket problem on V4R5


What is a socket?

A socket is a term used to describe one end of a TCP/IP connection.  When
you create
a socket you can either have it wait for an incoming connection, or connect
to some
remote system.  Lets take an outgoing socket.

We create the socket, and give it the IP address (or DNS name) of the remote
system
we want to connect too, as well as a port number (FTP is 20 and 21 [might be
19 and 20]),
HTTP is port 80, POP3 is port 110, etc... (Look for a file called
C:\WINDOWS\SERVICES on your
PC and open it with any editor such as notepad, it will list many of the
common ports).

Once we create this socket and give it the connection information, we tell
it to connect.  It
will then go through the TCP/IP stack on the computer and attempt to open a
connection with the
remote system.  If the remote system has it's own socket set up to listen on
the port you are 
trying to connect to a session is establish.  At this point we have a TCP/IP
connection between
the two machines. (TCP or UDP is another story)

Now, you can tell the socket to send data to the remote machine and have the
socket listen for
incoming data from the remote machine.  What this data looks like is pretty
much up to you.  It
can be anything you want to send and/or receive.  Normally this socket
connection will remain
connected until one side or the other closes the socket (or we get a time
out).

A socket is pretty much the lowest level you would program for TCP/IP on any
machine.  On top
of sockets people make libraries (directories in AS/400 terms) of calls for
different protocols.
In your program you might be writing to the HTTP library, but that all gets
translated to sockets
anyway.

If you want to write a program to connect between two computers using
TCP/IP, you need to learn
sockets.

I hope I've helped explain things.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Barnes, Edward V. (RPW)" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>         I have a question on sockets. Where can I find information on
> sockets, This is the seconds time I have can across this function. What
does
> it do? Talk to some people that have been programming for over five years
> and they could tell me what it does. Need information!
> Thanks
> Edward B.
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