Socket

In Jolie a socket location defines a TCP/IP network socket.

Socket location name in Jolie port definition is socket.

A socket location is an address expressed as a URI in the form socket://host:port/path, where:

• host identifies the system running the Jolie program. It can be either a domain name or an IP address;
• port defines the port on which the communication takes place.

The couple host:port represents an authority, where:

• path contains the path that identifies the Jolie program in the scope of an authority.

Local and remote socket locations

Sockets can identify:

• Local socket address, used when the communication is directed to a program running on the same location of the sender, i.e., socket://(localhost|127.0.0.1):port_number/path;
• Remote socket address, used when the communication is directed to a program running on a remote location from the sender. In this case host_names can be used in order to identify the resource via a Domain Name System, e.g., www.google.com:80 and 173.194.71.147:80 point to the same location, i.e., socket://(host_name|IP_address):port_number/path.