A client and a server need to exchange information via messages. TCP and UDP provide the transport mechanisms to do this. The two processes also need to have a protocol in place so that message exchange can take place meaningfully. A protocol defines what type of conversation can take place between two components of a distributed application by specifying messages and data types, encoding formats, and so on. This chapter looks at some of the issues involved in this process and gives a complete example ...
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