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For example, if I were to connect to a service with the following address:

68.146.63.194:3609

Is there a word for this type of address? I suppose I could call it just a generic address but I was wondering if there was a word for this specific type of connection..

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I think you would have found this a better fit for a more coding- or networking-related SE – simchona♦ Sep 22 '11 at 4:17

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It is called "Authority". Please check the image below:

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This picture has been taken from C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference Joseph Albahari

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Oh wow thank you! – Brittainy Roberts Sep 22 '11 at 3:26
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It should be noted that this is a highly technical term and this specific meaning is only known in a technical context (granted: so are "host" and "port", but they are slightly more well-known). – Joachim Sauer Oct 3 '11 at 11:55
+1, but pls provide references – Unreason Oct 3 '11 at 13:39
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@Unreason: the URI syntax (parts of which are visualized here) is defined in RFC 2396. Actually, reading that RFC, it becomes clear that the Authority contains the user information (i.e. username + password, if they are encoded in the URI). That means the image above is wrong. – Joachim Sauer Oct 3 '11 at 13:57
This term only works in the context of a URI. If you are just looking for the name of for example a UDP address/port combo, nobody will know what you are talking about. – T.E.D. Oct 3 '11 at 14:42
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Is this any different from a socket address?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_socket

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The correct answer is socket per the TCP/IP specification (RFC 793).

To allow for many processes within a single Host to use TCP communication facilities simultaneously, the TCP provides a set of addresses or ports within each host. Concatenated with the network and host addresses from the internet communication layer, this forms a socket.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html

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