Network - Connection

About

session in network are known as connection.

A socket is the known network connection implementation.

When referring to a network connection, most of the times, a text will refer to a TCP connection which is a socket implementation in TCP

Opening and closing connection are heavy operations, that's why even with HTTP, the connection tends to be permanent until the client, the server or a timer as expired. See Connection

How to connect

You can connect to a net server with a net client.