Trending Sockets Discussions

When to use TCP Socket or UDP socket in programming and servers communications?‎

How to discover p2p connection on public ip addresses without port forwarding?‎

How do you compare CURL and Socket programming in PHP? What are the pros and cons of both? And why do you prefer one over the other?‎

I was just wondering that we may be able to achieve the same thing using both of these methods i.e. CURL or Socket. Has anybody tried to compare these two on performance,‎ ... See More

 

Answer added by  Majid Hameed, Senior Java Developer, Check24 Vergleichsportal GmbH
10 years ago

* Socket performs better as compared to Curl. * Usage wise Curl is better as compared to Socket. * If you want to connect to machines over internet on different non stand ... See More

 

Answer added by  Paarhati Ozkasgarli, Consultant, Al Emadi Enterprises
9 years ago

It is depends on what kind of data you want to transfer using UDP or TCP Socket. UDP is a open protocol. Every information or data go through UDP does not wrapped and doe ... See More

 

Answer added by  Muhammad Majid Saleem, Senior PHP Developer / Project Manager, SwaamTech
10 years ago

I believe, both have their own advantages and disadvantages over each other. But I would suggest to user cURL.   I would recommend, you are better off using cURL because: ... See More

 

Answer added by  Muhammad Ahsan Javed, System and Network Administrator, Lahore School of Economics
9 years ago

UDP is a low-overhead transmission and connectionless protocol.  TCP is a high-reliability data transmission and connection oriented protocol. So TCP used for more sensit ... See More

 

Answer added by  Waqas Ali, Principal Network Engineer, TRG (The Resource Group)
9 years ago

netstat is the tool which can show your p2p connections and port opened.