Streams And Sockets?

[DeepBlackMagic]

Ok, how is everybody doing sockets these days. Im still back in the stone age printf'ing into a buffer, and sending the buffer. Is it possible in this great new day and age to use streams to do socket io? like mystream << mysocket, or std::getline(mysocket,mystring,widen('\n'));? If anybody has a better way to do socket io using winsucks...erm... winSOCKS, im deffinetly interested in finding a better way than old sprintf(mybuff, "somestuff\r\n"); send(mysock,mybuff,strlen(mybuf),0);

Thanks for your time.

[Hammer]

Sounds like this should be in the networking forum... moving.

[DeepBlackMagic]

Its more of a C++ question than a networking question, i have no problems with the networking, its the streams im curious about.

[Hunter2]

Well, you could always overload the << and >> operators for your socket wrapper class (i.e. Socket ;)) and for the stream... dunno how much effort that would save though.

[DeepBlackMagic]

=P the streams are for a seperate project. more a question of compadibility than anything else.

[ygfperson]

The flashchat program I posted a week ago on this forum uses sockets like that.