Questions tagged [networking]
Use this tag in reference to any topic related to networking hardware and software. Do not use this tag in reference to personal networking like on social media.
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Advice on how to ensure input only comes from my website component?
I have a website with an online keyboard. Essentially people can type on this online keyboard and send messages worldwide.
My problem is users can easily intercept the POST network call to the backend ...
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Approach for Proxying WebSocket Secure (WSS) Connections
I'm currently working on a project where I have a WebSocket Secure (WSS) server and a WSS client. The client establishes a WebSocket connection over TLS to the server, which enables bi-directional ...
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Secure communication between browser extension and server on uncontrolled LAN
In broad strokes, here is the problem at hand with its unusual combination of constrains, and the solution I've come up with.
While this question does involve cryptography, it isn't related to the ...
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Should non-browser applications connect to a URL?
I have written a game that users will download. When the game is started, I want it to automatically connect to the matchmaking server. Does that mean that, somewhere in the source code for the game, ...
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How is network virtualization useful?
I am trying to understand various virtualization techniques, and I am struggling to wrap my head around the concept of Network Virtualization.
In case of the server virtualization, the objective is ...
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Implementation of DHCP protocol?
I am taking a networking course, and am trying to understand protocols such as tcp/ip, DHCP etc.
I did a google search for the source-code for TCP/IP protocol, and learnt that it resides in the kernel ...
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Websockets, network delays and messages order
Let's say we have a group chat in a chat app build with websockets. And 3 users (A, B and C) chatting in that group.
All 3 users send their message one after another with an interval of 1 second (it ...
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Can a VPN tunnel be multiplexed for redundancy?
I’m trying to use a VPN on an unreliable network that blocks UDP and randomly kills TCP connections (by spoofing RST packets). With OpenVPN this is tough because all the tunnel traffic gets sent ...
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Multiple objects using the same connection for communication, filter messages "above" or inside the objects?
I have a single connection being used by multiple devices, and I'd like to filter the messages so that each device only reacts to messages intended for it. This can be done with an unique ID field in ...
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NIC handling multiple packets at once
Can NIC handle(send/receive) multiple packets at once?
For example, 2 asynchronous tasks request 2 different things from a database. Are those 2 requests sent simultaneously by NIC? Also, are the ...
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Is it possible to connect two devices on the internet if both are behind NAT using this method?
If i understand NAT correctly, by default a device outside of the NAT cannot reach a device inside it. If the two devices use a central server to connect however they can obviously communicate. My ...
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GRPC over internet
I want to build a grpc server which will be run by a company (service provider) and multiple client each run by a different company (a client). I thought of this instead using a Rest API to get ...
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How to maintain state for a turn-based game in django
I am using django to develop a turn based chess variant. I just finished using django-channels to create a lobby and match 2 players together. Now, I need to make them play each other and I'm thinking ...
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What IP protocol number should I use for my custom IP protocol? [closed]
I want do develop an IP based protocol oriented to smallest possible data overhead. For example UDP adds overhead of 8 bytes header. I want zero header.
I will use this protocol via 2G mobile network ...
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GUID possible misuse as short term message id
I have an distributed application that sends P2P messages parallel (for fault tolerance) across different channels.
This mandates an filter to avoid multiple receivement of the same message. Therfor I ...
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