<ul><li>A socket is crucial for network communication, providing an interface for applications to access the network protocol stack.</li><li>File descriptors are integer values managed by the OS to identify and handle open files, where everything in Unix/Linux is considered a file.</li><li>In Unix/Linux systems, sockets are treated as a special type of file with corresponding file descriptors used for network operations.</li><li>The TCP connection in Go's net/http involves steps like socket creation, server binding and listening, accepting connections, client connection, data transmission, and closing the connection.</li></ul>

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