Working with TCP sockets and servers
To send data over a network, the data has to conform to a certain format or protocol. The Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP/IP) is one of the core protocols to be used on the Internet. The following screenshot shows how to communicate over TCP/IP between a Julia Tcp server and a client (see the code in Chapter 8\tcpserver.jl
):
The server (in the upper-left corner) is started in a Julia session with server = listen(8080)
that returns a TcpServer
object listening on the port 8080
. The line conn = accept(server)
waits for an incoming client to make a connection. Now, in a second terminal (in the lower-right corner), ...
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