socket programming: How do I handle out of band data

Question

I just looked into wikipedia\'s entry on out-of-band data and as far as I understand, OOB data is somehow flagged more important and treated as ordinary data, but transmitte

Answer 1

I think I found the answer on this page. In short:

I don't need to handle OOB data on the receiving side if I'm not sending any OOB data. I had thought that OOB data could be generated by the OS of the sender.