Chapter 4. The TCP Protocol
In this chapter we look at TCP, a reliable, connection-oriented byte-stream protocol. These features make working with TCP sockets similar to working with familiar filehandles and pipes. After opening a TCP socket, you can send data through it using print() or syswrite(), and read from it using <>, read(), or sysread().
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