TCP half-open: Difference between revisions

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Removed paragraph based on false assumption, that TCP is stateless protocol.
tcp half open applies to opening connections too, not just closing connections
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A TCP connection is referred to as ''half-open'' when the station at one end of that TCP connection has crashed, or has otherwise removed the socket without formally notifying the other end of the TCP connection.
 
Note: A common misconception throughout the Internet is that the term TCP half-open applies to a partially-completed TCP handshake state. A better term for this unsynchronized kind of socket state is an [[Embryonic connection|embryonic]] state.
 
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