What does AF INET mean

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What does AF_INET mean in socket programming?
Jul 3, 2019 in Python by anonymous
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AF_INET refers to Address from the Internet and it requires a pair of (host, port) where the host can either be a URL of some particular website or its address and the port number is an integer.

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answered Jul 3, 2019 by Wajiha
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AF stands for Address Family.

INET means Internet Address (IP) version 4.

All together means a connection socket category based on IP address and TCP port.
answered Aug 24, 2023 by Albert
edited Mar 5, 2025

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