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a data structure that provides access to inter-process communication. For the past 40 years, this basically means network communication.

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Why can't sockets be used to identify individuals instead of cookies?

So sockets can't be used because HTTP will close the socket after downloading the web page. … So with websockets you can again use sockets to identify a user because the websocket by itself is stateful. …
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