On Feb 25, 10:08 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There can be many TCP connections to a server all using the same > endpoint. Take a look at the traffic coming out of any busy web server: > everything that comes out of the same server comes from port 80. That > doesn't stop it listening for more connections on port 80. >
--- When you surf the Web, say to http://www.google.com, your Web browser is a client. The program you contact at Google is a server. When a server is run, it sets up business at a certain port, say 80 in the Web case. It then waits for clients to contact it. When a client does so, the server will usually assign a new port, say 56399, specifically for communication with that client, and then resume watching port 80 for new requests. --- http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PyNet.pdf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list