Chapter 14. Networking
This chapter covers the Microsoft .NET Framework networking classes, showing how they work and where there are differences from the java.net package. Table 14-1 shows the tiers of service provided by the classes in the java.net package alongside their .NET equivalents.
Table 14-1. Three Network Tiers of Service
Service Tier | Java | .NET |
|---|---|---|
Request/response | URLConnection | System.Net.WebClient |
System.Net.WebRequest | ||
System.Net.WebResponse | ||
Protocol | Socket | System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient |
ServerSocket | System.Net.Sockets.TcpListener | |
DatagramSocket | System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient | |
MulticastSocket | ||
Native socket access | N/A | System.Net.Sockets.Socket |
The first section of this chapter discusses the WebClient, WebRequest, and WebResponse classes that support the ...
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