Octet String: What is it?

Question

I am starting to look into some network programming concepts for a project I am about to take over, and I keep running into this concept of an octet string. Can anyone out

Answer 1

A group of 8 bits in a computer is called an octet. A byte is the same for most practical purposes, but does not equal 8 bits on all computer architectures. More can be found here .. Link