Hey there,
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> >
> > From: Ian Upright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > ian-list> What is the advantage of a named socket? Why not just use
> > ian-list> an ordinary TCP/IP socket?
> >
> > Port space. What random port do you want to allocate today? With
> > named pipes, they are represented in form of file names instead of
> > ports. The space is simply very much larger, and easier to define
> > in a somewhat elegant way.
>
> They are also faster and inherently only accessible by localhost (err,
> on Unix, anyway).
The other obvious reason is that you can use file permissions on them to
control access, rather than accepting everything and doing retrospective
filtering on IP addresses or other authentication to throw away
connections you don't want.
Cheers,
Geoff
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