Socket.io
- What is the benefit of transforming data into packets?
They don’t all get lost, and we they do, we can identify which ones were lost.
- UDP is often refereed to as a connectionless protocol. Why is this?
because it doesn’t return any kind of data when a packet either reaches it or gets dropped somewhere.
- Can a socket server application have multiple socket connections?
yes.
- Can a socket connection application be connected to multiple socket servers?
yes.
- Can an application be both a socket server and a socket connection?
yes.