Chapter 3. Introduction to Berkeley Sockets
This chapter introduces Perl's version of the Berkeley socket API, the low-level network API that underlies all of Perl's networking modules. It explains the different kinds of sockets, demonstrates basic Berkeley-based clients and servers, and discusses some of the common traps programmers encounter when first working with the API.
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