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== Socket Programming ==

An excellent guide to low-level socket programming is right [http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/htmlsingle/bgnet.html here].

Tango exposes this kind of low-level access via tango.net.Socket, but that is just too low-lowel for general usage. Thus, Tango provides a number of higher level wrappers to make Internet programming more productive.

SocketConduit

ServerSocket

DatagramConduit

MulticastConduit



Uri represents Internet URLs:

[[Image(source:/trunk/doc/images/Uri.gif)]]

This is the Internet equivalent of !FileConduit:

[[Image(source:/trunk/doc/images/SocketConduit.gif)]]