Can anyone find an example of a simple server/client thing? I'm willing to use any C++ library or even Winsocks it self. I've Googled around but want some opinion on a good article for beginners/sites.
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JFGI
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/win/misc/sockets.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue74/tougher.html
caskey
2010-04-20 05:10:00
+1 Best guide ever written imho.
ereOn
2010-04-20 07:09:34
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If you are looking for a C++ networking library, I suggest Asio, which is now part of Boost. Start with the Tutorial. Also have a look at the examples.
Vijay Mathew
2010-04-20 05:14:32
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If you're willing to use a C++ library, I heartily recommend Qt. It gives you an easy way to communicate with sockets, and much more. In particular see the QtNetwork module - a few of its relevant classes for your cause: QTcpSocket, QTcpServer, QUdpSocket.
Eli Bendersky
2010-04-20 05:21:58
Qt is nice and will allow you to things quickly. But if he really wants to understand how things work, I believe it might more interesting for him to use the native socket directly.
ereOn
2010-04-20 07:09:00
@ereOn: fair enough. My suggestion is with the assumption that he wants to write a real application. For learning, Beej's guide is a much better idea
Eli Bendersky
2010-04-20 07:35:04
Thanks for the link, but I think the first one links to the wrong thing. I think this is also a good idea to start with a lib first then go deeper into the sockets, and some day, write my own.
kooo
2010-04-20 14:14:03
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I like ACE. It is a pretty large library but there are some core classes that are really easy to use for beginning network programming.
Here's a really good book for ACE too. Ace Programming Guide
zooropa
2010-04-24 17:51:18