INET-domain sockets

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## INET-domain sockets

These are sockets which are reachable from the Internet directly. The link program `tlink` is the provided facility for such communication with MiniVend; you may also use your browser to talk to the socket directly if you have it mapped to a catalog with the global TcpMap directive.

To improve security, MiniVend usually checks that the request comes from one of a limited number of systems, defined in the global TcpHost directive. (This check is not made for the internal HTTP server.)

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