Transport

Definitions

1. The network layer or mechanism responsible for reliably (or unreliably) moving data between endpoints — most commonly referring to TCP or UDP at OSI Layer 4, but also used abstractly for any pluggable delivery mechanism in frameworks (HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, etc.).

   In plain English: The underlying method used to move data from one place to another over a network.

   Example: "The gRPC client defaults to HTTP/2 as its transport, but you can swap in a Unix socket transport for local IPC."

Related Terms

• packet
• Communication Protocol
• Connection Manager
• Connection String
• Handshake
• Message Protocol
• Serialization
• Packet Replay
• Protocol Vulnerability
• Binary Protocol
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