---
title: Networking
description: Establish network connections directly from the frontend without a server or proxy.
---
The Puter.js Networking API lets you establish network connections directly from your frontend without requiring a server or a proxy, effectively giving you a full-featured networking API in the browser.
`puter.net` provides both low-level socket connections via TCP socket and TLS socket, and high-level HTTP client functionality, such as `fetch`. One of the major benefits of `puter.net` is that it allows you to bypass CORS restrictions entirely, making it a powerful tool for developing web applications that need to make requests to external APIs.
## Features
#### Fetch a resource without CORS restrictions
```html;net-fetch
```
#### Connect to a server and print the response
```html;net-basic
```
#### Connect to a server with TLS and print the response
```html;net-tls
```
## Functions
These networking features are supported out of the box when using Puter.js:
- **[`puter.net.fetch()`](/Networking/fetch/)** - Make HTTP requests
- **[`puter.net.Socket()`](/Networking/Socket/)** - Create TCP socket connections
- **[`puter.net.tls.TLSSocket()`](/Networking/TLSSocket/)** - Create secure TLS socket connections
## Examples
You can see various Puter.js networking features in action from the following examples:
- [Basic TCP Socket](/playground/net-basic/)
- [TLS Socket](/playground/net-tls/)
- [Fetch](/playground/net-fetch/)
## Tutorials
- [How to Bypass CORS Restrictions](https://developer.puter.com/tutorials/cors-free-fetch-api/)