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It blows my mind that this is on the front page. It's not useful for anything, doesn't fully work, and can be replicated with a few lines on the console of BSD/Linux/windows.

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Reminds of the time a friend wanted my opinion on a quote he received that it would take a week to open a socket in Unix using C code

Sounds about right. Takes even longer to close it. That's why you don't manage the socket yourself and just use boost ;)

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