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Let's say I have the following: http://ip_addr:port

This is supposedly called the socket address (see sources below), but I can't find a conclusive answer anywhere if the transport protocol (http://) is included in this term.

Does socket address include the transport protocol?

Sources

A simple Google Image search of "socket address" yields many results, none having the protocol included.

From Network socket (Wikipedia), it suggests socket address does include http://:

socket address, which is the triad of transport protocol, IP address, and port number.

The question What is the proper term for ipaddress/hostname:port 's selected answer does not include transport protocol.

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  • HTTP is an application-layer protocol. A transport-layer protocol is like TCP or UDP. Unfortunately, questions about protocols above the transport layer are off-topic here. You could try to ask this question on [sf] for a business network. – Ron Maupin Mar 08 '22 at 20:55

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http://ip_addr:port is a URL. It includes the TCP socket ip_addr:port (since HTTP uses TCP in the transport layer/L4).

A port only makes sense in the context of a transport-layer protocol like TCP or UDP. However, the L4 protocol is often just implied and not explicitly stated.

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