If you sit at your desk and you browse the internet, it is likely that you're using a connection-oriented type of communication. When you request a page via HTTP or HTTPS, under the hood, a connection between your machine and the server you're trying to contact is established before the actual communication takes place. The de facto standard for internet communications is the Transport Control Protocol (TCP). In this chapter, you will learn what it is and why it is important, and you will also learn (on the command line) what a connection is.
Learning the basics of connection-oriented communication
How to do it...
In this section, we'll explore use of the command line to understand what happens when...
