Sockets are a general-purpose way of communicating over networks and similar infrastructure. Essentially they are a generalization of files to things other than storage devices. They aren’t part of ...

Many websites now refuse to serve unencrypted data and insist on HTTPS. Fortunately it is very easy to create an HTTPS client as you don’t need to create a digital certificate. If you need to prove to ...

WebSockets implement fast, secure, bi-directional, full duplex communication between a client and a server to support real-time, low-latency messaging A web socket is a TCP socket connection between ...

Create a JavaScript client that works with a WCF 4.5 WebSockets service to receive continuous, ongoing updates from the service. In my last two columns, I've looked at configuring and writing a WCF ...