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Ranch User Guide
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 *  [Introduction](introduction.md)
   *  Purpose
   *  Prerequisites
 *  [Listeners](listeners.md)
   *  Purpose
   *  Starting and stopping
   *  Listening on a random port
   *  Listening on privileged ports
   *  Accepting connections on an existing socket
   *  Limiting the number of concurrent connections
   *  Upgrading
 *  [Transports](transports.md)
   *  Purpose
   *  TCP transport
   *  SSL transport
   *  Sending and receiving data
   *  Writing a transport handler
 *  [Protocols](protocols.md)
   *  Purpose
   *  Writing a protocol handler
 *  [SSL client authentication](ssl_auth.md)
   *  Purpose
   *  Obtaining client certificates
   *  Transport configuration
   *  Authentication
 *  [Embedded mode](embedded.md)
   *  Purpose
   *  Embedding
 *  [Internals](internals.md)
   *  Architecture
   *  Efficiency considerations