November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
392 pages
11h
English

This chapter explores basic network applications—the clients and servers running in user space that reside at the application layer. Because this layer is at the top of the stack, close to end users, you may find this material more accessible than the material in Chapter 9. Indeed, you interact with network client applications such as web browsers and email readers every day.
To do their work, network clients connect to corresponding network servers. Unix network servers come in many forms. A server program can listen to a port on its own or through a secondary server. In addition, servers have no common ...
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