Preface

Introduction

The explosive growth of the Internet, wireless communications, and networking in general has led to a corresponding growth in the number of programmers and engineers writing networking applications. TCP/IP programming can seem seductively simple. The Application Programming Interface (API) is straightforward, and even the newest beginner can take a template for a client or server and flesh it out to a working application.

Often, however, after an initial surge of productivity, neophytes begin to bog down in details and find that their applications suffer from performance or robustness problems. Network programming is a field full of dark corners and often misunderstood details. This book sheds light into those corners and ...

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