Sockets?...Libraries!

[Apage43]

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

[Dan]

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.

[wtd]

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.

code:

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.