Difference between socket and websocket?

Question

I\'m building web app that needs to communicate with another application using socket connections. This is new territory for me, so want to be sure that sockets are differen

Answer 1

Websockets use sockets in their implementation. Websockets are based on a standard protocol (now in final call, but not yet final) that defines a connection "handshake" and message "frame." The two sides go through the handshake procedure to mutually accept a connection and then use the standard message format ("frame") to pass messages back and forth.

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