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Base64 decode and SH1 decryption of Sec-WebSocket-Accept value example from Websocket RFC

I am planning to implement the Websocket protocol and currently learning how handshake headers must be structured. According to this link http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6455/?include_text=1 ...
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Prevent anomalies caused by signal propagation time

In electrical engineering class we learned that signal lines are not ideal, so it takes time for the signal to reach the other end of the cable, and if we doesn't take this into account, it can lead ...
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Use client to access database or server to access database

I' creating a client server application in which I need to update a particular database. I'm using python with MySQL. There are two options: I use a client.py and server.py, the client.py can send ...
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UPNP Solutions - SDL

As a beginner programmer, I find the idea of p2p networks intriguing. As I learn more about the SDL library, I feel as though I'm getting closer to being able to experiment with networking. ...
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VNC client for my netbeans IDE to invite the freelance developers in my project? [duplicate]

I need your help to find a VNC client software or any other distributed software development techniques to share my netbeans IDE with some freelancers over the internet, Well I have a complex web ...
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I am a Network Engineer wanting to shift to Software Engineer [closed]

I have three years experience as Network Engineer. I now want to shift to development. Will my experience as Network Engineer reduce my chances as Software Engineer? I am pretty good as Algorithms. ...
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Are Python sockets suitable for file synchronization?

I'm working in an organisation with limited funds. They can't afford a business account on Dropbox. However, they would find it useful to have all their files synchronized on local machines. I've ...
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How to get a Web Application to communicate between users

I am developing a multipalyer web Application for Anti-Chess. It would be hosted on Google App Engine. I have a few questions: How do I get two different users who have opened the webapp on their ...
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Non Blocking Sockets vs Blocking sockets - UDP - C&linux

When to use blocking sockets over non blocking sockets on UDP? Question 1:What's is recommended for the following scenario ? Multiple clients send data over multiple UDP sockets, i.e. say client1 ...
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UDP order of packets with direct connection

If i have two systems (A and B) running on LAN(INTRANET) which are directly connected. There are no routers in the middle. In this case, if system A sends a few UDP packets every few milliseconds to ...
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Handling timeout in network application

How can I handle timeouts in a network application. I'm implementing a provisioning system on a Linux server, the code is huge so I'm going to put the algorithm, it works as like this Read ...
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Server distribution for high performance

I've developed a Socket Application on top of TCP in .NET C#, which allows many clients to send files from one another via a VPS I'm using. Most file transfers will occur between people in the same ...
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Theory about software communications mixing up with other software causing an Apocalypse?

I can remember a very Very long time ago (pre Y2K) , reading an article by some "expert" that theorized that software communicating over the internet, especially video games could get mixed up with ...
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Game Netplay Rollback System

Can one explain the specifics and details of a netplay framework for a game that optimizes connection through a "prediction / rollback" mechanic, as seen in games where speed is a priority ...
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How can a server initiate request in SIP protocol?

Either a client or a server can initiate request in SIP. How is it possible? How will the server know about the client?
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Simple, Free, Local DNS Server for Developers? [closed]

Most of us web developers have used our hosts files to so that a domain resolves to localhost (or some other machine) for testing/development purposes. Usually, that's good enough. One shortcoming ...
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Why don't many languages have a better DNS library built-in core? [closed]

Why don't many programming languages have real DNS client libraries built-in core? For example Python, Ruby and C# lack it. You usually get only methods to get hostname out of IP or vice versa and ...
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How to better performance [closed]

In one of my interviews I was asked a vague question, I'm still not sure of the answer. We have a client and a server they are placed apart. The network that connects them has high latency, which is ...
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Sockets intricacies in TCP and UDP

I am quite familiar with TCP and UDP. I understand the process by which TCP establishes connections and other theoretical facts about TCP but when reading up about TCP hole punching for NAT ...
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What happens when an unexpected packet arrives at a computer? [closed]

I have been wondering this for a few days. I basically understand how networks and packets work. But what happends when an unexpected packet arrives? Like, when I didn't send a request for a website's ...
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Sending binary data from a computer to a server using HTTP or sockets [closed]

I am working on a script which can send data to a remote server computer and I am wondering which is better to achieve this functionality, the high level functionality provided by HTTP or just raw ...
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Implementing the transport layer for a SIP UAC

I have a somewhat simple, but specific, question about implementing the transport layer for a SIP UAC. Do I expect the response to a request on the same socket that I sent the request on, or do I let ...
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Hosting WCF over internet [closed]

I am pretty new to exposing the WCF services hosted on IIS over internet. I will be deploying a WCF service over IIS(6 or 7) and would like to expose this service over the internet. This will be ...
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Any one ever heard of the term collapsed Backbone? [closed]

Any one ever heard of the term collapsed Backbone? Could it be a virtual network that could be referred also to this term.
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How does recording video and playing it back in realtime work? [closed]

I am looking to understand how recording video (and audio) and playing it back in realtime work (on the same pc or over a network)? I understand for a file stored on the disk. You read it and play it ...
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How to rewrite a TCP MMOG server designed to run in a single machine, in a distributed way?

I have a MMOG server running on C++, using winsockets. My server won't support more than 200 players. I had the idea of redesigning it so it will use multiple servers instead of one, so, maybe, for ...
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Difference between a socket and a port

Could someone please explain quite clearly the difference between a port and a socket. I know that a port serves as a door into the network for an application process and that the application process ...
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Why are there proxy processes between clients and logic processes in C/S application?

In real world networking software following c/s model, there are always proxy server processes between clients and server processes dealing with business logic, why we need proxy to isolate the logic ...
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Event system architecture for networking when performance is concerned

How should I design a system for an action game (think in Golden Axe) where events can happen remotely? I'm using TCP for this because the client is in flash. There's so many options, I can make a ...
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Setting source IP with posix sockets

Is it possible for an application to request a socket (tcp) and have it set the source address without using raw sockets? (the addresses would be bound to the interfaces. [no spoofing]). This would be ...
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Reconstruct a file from a TCP stream

I have a client and a server and a third box which sees all packets from the server to the client (but not the other way around). Now when the client requests a file from the server (over HTTP), the ...
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Would a typical corporate firewall block a Java applet having the following behaviour

I'm thinking of developing a proxy-like program to forward ports on a remote PC to a local PC (for example SSH). Assume that both local and remote PCs are running behind typical firewalls (i.e. ...
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Serializing network messages

I am writing a network wrapper around boost::asio and was wondering what is a good and simple way to serialize my messages. I have a message factory which can take care of dispatching the data to the ...
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Sharing SCTP connection with multiple threads

I have an application that needs to run in SCTP environment, I have a question in sharing the connection among multiple threads for packet receiving only, I've tried with the sctp_sendmsg and it ...
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How could I avoid a distributed deadlock during a mutual connection between two nodes?

Suppose we have two peer nodes: the first node can send a connection request to the second one, but also the second one can send a connection request to the first one. How to avoid a double connection ...
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Cross language remoting and serialisation [closed]

I need to create add network communication to a server written in the Java that will be connected to through a C# application. I have very little experience in networking and I'm struggling to decide ...
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How related is coding/information theory to computer networking?

I am taking a networking class(data communication) this coming semester. In many courses in my computer engineering degree, the books lack mathematical content. I am not a math wizard, but I think ...
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QoS implementation algorithm

I'm working on an application, that does IP routing and QoS. Today we have the QoS implemented, with 3 priorities (low, normal and high) and for each level we create a Queue and as soon as the ...
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What is Curiosity's packet structure?

For NASA's Interplanetary Network, what does a packet look like? It's obviously a form of redundant protocol, stored at the receiver and with built back up. Is there any documentation on the packet ...
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Is restricting sessions to an absolute IP likely to have a wide impact on mobile networks?

Our website currently restricts a cookie-based session to the IP address that was originally sent the Set-Cookie HTTP header. In the past a user's IP would rarely change, so this didn't present much ...
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Is it wrong to push messages from server to client in a client-server application?

I practically never see any web application where server pushes messages to the client. While pushing messages from server to client is hugely used in multiplayer games, why this model is so underused ...
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tcp retransmission queue

I'm trying to understand how tcp retransmission queue works so I can implement it in my application that uses TCAP over SCTP. What I understood from the TCP queue is that every message is saved in ...
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Multiplayer Game Listen Servers: Ensuring Integrity

I'm making a simple multiplayer game of Tic Tac Toe in Python using Bridge (its an RPC service built over a message queue - RabbitMQ) and I'd like to structure it so that the client and the server are ...
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Communication between state machines with hidden transitions

The question emerged for me in embedded programming but I think it can be applied to quite a number of general networking situations e.g. when a communication partner fails. Assume we have an ...
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SS7(M3UA, SCCP, TCAP, MAP) Stack

I'm building an open source SMSC from scratch; it's almost finished, The SRI and the forwardSM operations are working, but I still have few things to do for the receiving part. I've built the SS7 ...
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Why did Golang discontinue the “netchan” package?

The Golang "netchan" package seems to have been discontinued. That makes me think that the concept of "networked channels" were not a good practice after all. (Why wouldn't them just "let it be" ...
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data structure for file search

I've asked this question before and I got a few answers/idea but I'm not sure how to implement them. I'm building a telecom messaging solution, currently I'm using Database to save my ...
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Which topics do I need to research to enable me to complete my self-assigned “Learning Project”?

I want to continue learning C#. I've read parts of a few books recommended on here and the language is feeling more familiar by the day. I'd like to tackle a mid-sized personal project to take my ...
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How to network effectively to get a job [closed]

I have been working for 5 years at the same company now. I want to go and find a new job. Finding jobs or getting interview calls has been difficult, there are have far and few. And to compound the ...
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Geo IP data on stackoverflow API?

Have just looked at stackgeography and at soapi. I cannot see where the geo data comes from as it's not on the soapi. Can anybody shed some light on that? More info on the stackgeography

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