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Network Programming with Rust
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Network Programming with Rust

by Abhishek Chanda
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Application Layer Protocols

As we saw in the previous few chapters, two hosts in a network exchange bytes, either in a stream or in discrete packets. It is often up to a higher-level application to process those bytes to something that makes sense to the application. These applications define a new layer of protocol over the transport layer, often called application layer protocols. In this chapter, we will look into some of those protocols.

There are a number of important considerations for designing application layer protocols. An implementation needs to know at least the following details:

  • Is the communication broadcast or point-to-point? In the first case, the underlying transport protocol must be UDP. In the second case, it can be either ...
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