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+#+title: socket_programming_in_c
+#+filetags: :networking:coding:notes:
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+From: [[https://www.linuxhowtos.org/C_C++/socket.htm][Web Link]]
+* Steps: 
+The steps involved in establishing a socket on the client side are as follows:
+
+1. Create a socket with the socket() system call
+2. Connect the socket to the address of the server using the connect() system call
+3. Send and receive data. There are a number of ways to do this, but the simplest is to use the read() and write() system calls.
+
+The steps involved in establishing a socket on the server side are as follows:
+
+1. Create a socket with the socket() system call
+2. Bind the socket to an address using the bind() system call. For a server socket on the Internet, an address consists of a port number on the host machine.
+3. Listen for connections with the listen() system call
+4. Accept a connection with the accept() system call. This call typically blocks until a client connects with the server.
+5. Send and receive data
+* Socket types:
+When you create a socket, you must specify the *address domain* and the *socket type*, the client and server can only communicate if they are of the same type and in the same domain.
+
+The two most common address domains:
+- unix domain (they share common file system)
+- internet domain
+
+The two most common socket types:
+- stream sockets (continuous stream of characters) - uses tcp
+- datagram sockets (reads the entire messages at once) - uses dp