Sockets

Additionally, there are several commonly used Socket methods:

public InputStream getInputStream();

Returns an input stream for this socket.

public OutputStream getOutputStream();

Returns an output stream for this socket.

public void close();

Closes this socket.

public int getPort();

Returns the remote port to which this socket is connected.

public InetAddress getInetAddress();

Returns the address to which the socket is connected.

public int getLocalPort();

Returns the local port to which this socket is bound.

The streams returned from these accessors rely on TCP’s error correction and flow

control.