Question

A socket is the interface between the application layer and the transport layer within a host. True or False

HTTP uses UDP as its underlying transport layer protocol.

True

False

Answer 1

ANSWER:-

QUESTION (1):-

TRUE

a socket is the interface between the application layer and the transport layer within a host. It is also referred to as the API (application programmers interface) between the application and the network, since the socket is the programming interface with which networked applications are built in the Internet. The application developer has control of everything on the application-layer side of the socket but has little control of the transport-layer side of the socket. The only control that the application developer has on the transport-layer side is (i) the choice of transport protocol and (ii) perhaps the ability to fix a few transport-layer parameters such as maximum buffer and maximum segment sizes. Once the application developer chooses a transport protocol (if a choice is available), the application is built using the transport layer the services offered by that protocol.

QUESTION (2):-

FALSE

HTTP uses TCP as its underlying transport layer protocol.