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Apage43

Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:10 pm


Sockets?...Libraries!

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What's a good socket library for C++?
If not cross-platform, *nix compatible, please.


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Dan

Sun Nov 23, 2003 2:50 pm



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plz post in the right fourm, moved....

any how some compilers come with a winsock libeary. but that only wroks with windows.

here is a tutoiral on it:

http://www.madwizard.org/view.php?page=tutorials.networking.contents&lang=cpp

and here

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=2241&lngWId=3

i do bivle that some compilers also come with a verson for unix/linux.


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wtd

Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:04 pm



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This might be better done in a higher level language, too.  Perl, Python, Ruby... any of those will give you socket capabilities that will work pretty much anywhere.  And the code's heaven too.  :-)

require "socket"

$port = 12000

server = TCPServer.new($port);

Thread.start(server.accept) { |client|
   client.puts("hello world!")
   client.close
}

client = TCPSocket.new("localhost", $port)
puts client.gets

A simple server (only accepts one connection) and a client in 13 lines of code that will work on *nix (Linux, BSDs, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, etc.) and Windows.

Anyway, just a thought.