8.2. Understanding Your Options
There are many different ways for you to access the network from the programs that you write, and one of these techniques involves absolutely no work at all on your part. It is important that you recognize that the trivial technique is a viable way to perform network communications, because it often simplifies program design. More-advanced techniques let you form dedicated network connections between specific programs running on different machines, and therefore give you better control over when and how data flows between the source and destination. This section will help you to understand all of the options that are available.
The word network is normally used to mean several different things. For example, you ...
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