Chapter 3. Internet Client Programming
You can’t take something off the Internet, that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool. Once it’s in there, it’s in there.
—Joe Garrelli, March 1996(verbally via “Joe Rogan,” a character fromNewsRadio [television program]),
In this chapter...
In Chapter 2, “Network Programming,” we took a look at low-level networking communication protocols using sockets. This type of networking is at the heart of most of the client/server protocols that exist on the Internet today. These protocols include those for transferring files (FTP, etc.), reading Usenet newsgroups (Network News Transfer Protocol), sending e-mail ...
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