From c52912703c4d71c6d904dc74b504eaca231222ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shanu Khera Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:01:21 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] it's not compulsary that ipv4 is being used. (#218) --- README.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 0f80c28a..002e5e7d 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Opening of a socket Once the browser receives the IP address of the destination server, it takes that and the given port number from the URL (the HTTP protocol defaults to port 80, and HTTPS to port 443), and makes a call to the system library function -named ``socket`` and requests a TCP socket stream - ``AF_INET`` and +named ``socket`` and requests a TCP socket stream - ``AF_INET/AF_INET6`` and ``SOCK_STREAM``. * This request is first passed to the Transport Layer where a TCP segment is