network programming: how does s.accept() work?

[bockman at virgilio.it]

>
> The question I'm really trying to answer is: if a client connects to a
> host at a specific port, but the server changes the port when it
> creates a new socket with accept(), how does data sent by the client
> arrive at the correct port?  Won't the client be sending data to the
> original port e.g. port 5052 in the client code above?
>

I'm not an expert, never used TCP/IP below the socket abstraction
level, but I imagine
that after accept, the client side of the connection is someow
'rewired' with the new
socket created on the server side.

Anyhow, this is not python-related, since the socket C library behaves
exactly in the same way.

Ciao
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