The network protocol that is used to allow the client and server processes of a networked application to communicate across a network. In the Internet, application protocol messages will be carried by either TCP (for connection-oriented services) or UDP (for connectionless services). The client process will communicate with the server process using a either a TCP or a UDP socket.

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