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The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) originally developed Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to interconnect various defense department computer networks. The Internet, an international Wide Area Network, uses TCP/IP to connect government and educational institutions across the world. TCP/IP is also in widespread use on commercial and private networks.
How do you know you want to learn it if you don't know what it is?
In short, it is network programming. And virtually any language worth using has some form of binding to allow you to write TCP/IP programs.
Generally you write TCP/IP programs using some form of "Socket" API. Do a google search and you will turn up a lot. If you have any other more specific questions, most people here will be able to help.
does the fact that " a computer is standalone & connected to internet"
and "a client side computer connected to the server that is providing the internet connection" pose any restriction on the type of programs that can be run or languages that can be used on these two kinds of computers??
Originally posted by gajaykrishnan does the fact that " a computer is standalone & connected to internet"
and "a client side computer connected to the server that is providing the internet connection" pose any restriction on the type of programs that can be run or languages that can be used on these two kinds of computers??
to make the things clearer..
can u give me some eg. of what all can be done using tcp/ip programming??
perhaps this will help me make the above question clearer..
Whatever web browser you are using was done using TCP/IP programming. More specifically, it was written to make requests and recieve responses as defined in the HTTP protocol.
Originally posted by gajaykrishnan can u give me some eg. of what all can be done using tcp/ip programming??
perhaps this will help me make the above question clearer..
You need TCP/IP programming (in other words a "sockets API"), when you make any program that talks over a network by means of the TCP/IP protocol (by far the most commonly used protocol for networks, including the internet).
So, to mention a few, you need TCP/IP (sockets) programming when you want to make your own:
Originally posted by gajaykrishnan i want to learn tcp/ip programming..
can u please explain me what is it used for..
which language is used to program it.
If the program is on the same computer, or on the same network segment, you could spy on someone browsing the internet. Programs to do this already exist (of course).
Though one could think of honest reasons to do this, it does not sound very nice of you though!
Originally posted by gajaykrishnan can i monitor what sites a user is accessing using a program that is running as a background process when a user is surfing internet
YES. And you can then use that information to bombard the user with targeted ads and spam.
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