Difference between socket and websocket?

Question

I\'m building web app that needs to communicate with another application using socket connections. This is new territory for me, so want to be sure that sockets are differen

Answer 1

Regarding your question (b), be aware that the Websocket specification hasn't been finalised. According to the W3C:

Implementors should be aware that this specification is not stable.

Personally I regard Websockets to be waaay too bleeding edge to use at present. Though I'll probably find them useful in a year or so.