Week 2

Peer-to-peer

• Gives extra facilities within a network to give extra services - within client server works

Sockets

• to send info between same applications, data should be sent in process within machine

• Processor linked to applications

• Different socket numbers per application - each application needs to communicate with socket number

• some sockets are free to run new applications

HTTP - need to send data in a fast manner, many generations

user agent = application (e.g. outlook) - in charge of sending info within email application

Mail server = buffer that saves message you sent and manages info from current application - your machine

mail server receives - Based on priority or criteria, pushed to client