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SSL Encryption - What is SSL Encryption?

What is SSL Encryption? Prior to the advent of TLS (Transport Layer Security) in 1999, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was the most extensively adopted cryptographic protocol for providing security over internet communications. Although the SSL protocol has been deprecated and replaced by TLS, this type of technology is still generally referred to as SSL. SSL establishes a secure connection between two…
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SMTP - What is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)?

What does SMTP mean? Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a collection of communication protocols that allows applications to send email messages over the internet. SMTP is a program that uses email addresses to deliver messages to other computer users. What is SMTP and how does…
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Rest API – What Is a Rest API?

What Is a Rest API? A REST API (commonly known as a RESTful API) is a sort of application interface (API or web API) that follows the restrictions of the REST organizational approach and facilitates interaction with RESTful web services.  Short for representational state…
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Real Time IP—What is Real-time IP?

What is Real-time IP? Both TCP and UDP are built on top of Internet Protocol (IP). The Real-time IP delivers streaming of audio and video over the internet by enabling Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) designed Real-time IP (RTP) for sending live or real-time videos over the internet via discrete branches known as Packets. Due to the distributed nature of…
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Quotes – What Are Quotes?

What Are Currency Quotes? In foreign exchange terms, a pair of currencies are quoted against each other.  The base is the first listed currency in a currency pair, whereas the quote is the second listed currency, the benchmark.  Currency pairs are intended to be compared…
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Public IP Address - What is Public IP Address?

What is Public IP Address? You are likely aware that an IP address is a number in the format aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd. It is this IP address that devices use to communicate with other devices over the Internet. Thus, public IP addresses are those permanent/unique IP addresses allocated to Internet-connected devices and can be routed over the Internet independently. They serve as permanent addresses for…
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Private IP Address – What Is a Private IP Address?

A private IP address is a non-routable address of your device assigned by the network router. Every device connected to the same network has a private IP or network address. An IP address allows devices connected over the same network to communicate.  What Is a Private IP…
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Ping - What is Ping?

What is Ping? Ping is a command-line application that checks if a networked device is accessible and is available on practically any operating system with network connectivity.  It delivers a request to a particular device via the network.  The machine pinged back to the…
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Parameters– What Is Parameter?

What is Parameter?  A parameter is a variable used in computer programming to refer to one of the pieces of data presented as an “input” to a procedure.  These are the values of the arguments (also known as actual arguments or actual parameters) that will be used to call/invoke the process.  The structure of parameters is usually given in the specification of a subroutine.  Then…
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