 LuaSocket much simpler
than it is in C, as the following sections will show.
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<h3 id=tcp>TCP</h3>

<p>
TCP (Transfer  Control Protocol) is  reliable stream protocol.  In other
words, applications communicating through TCP  can send and receive data as
an  error free  stream  of  bytes. Data  is  split  in one  end  and
reassembled transparently on  the other end. There are  no boundaries in
the  data transfers.  The library