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          For portability reasons, networking does not provide timeouts or cancellation
          features for synchronous stream operations.
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        To simplify the handling of timeouts, these provided types wrap a <a href="../../../../../../doc/html/boost_asio/reference/basic_stream_socket.html" target="_top"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">net</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">basic_stream_socket