Hello.

I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.

Use-cases for sockets API on the web

Paul Kinlan

There's a growing interest in using socket APIs directly within web browsers for various applications, both client-side and server-side. This post lists potential use-cases for outgoing and incoming socket connections, eliminating the need for proxying through web servers. Examples include email clients connecting directly to IMAP/POP3/SMTP, SSH/RDP clients, real-time communication tools like IRC and XMPP, P2P applications like BitTorrent, and direct connections to servers for various purposes like video streaming, Bitcoin, and game multiplayer functionality. For incoming connections, use-cases include hosting servers for many of the aforementioned services (IRC, BitTorrent, HTTP) directly within the browser.

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Google Search: create a dsl connection in c#

Paul Kinlan

This post addresses the Google search query "create a dsl connection in c#". It clarifies that C# doesn't create DSL-specific connections. Instead, you use standard TCP connections via System.Net.Sockets and System.Net, relying on Windows to manage the network interface.

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