I’m working on a tool which would need to communitacte: send and recieve files with other remote instances of the tool over the internet. Which communication option would be best to use in this case ? Sockets?
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I’m working on a tool which would need to communitacte: send and recieve files with other remote instances of the tool over the internet. Which communication option would be best to use in this case ? Sockets?
Sockets is definitely not the way to go. Instead you should use an already existing, higher layer protocol, like FTP or even HTTP. Sockets only expose bare TCP/IP functionality. So to send/receive files, you would end up adding the application logic yourself (you need to deal with lost packets for example). Higher layer protocols already do this for you.