dont know were to start
hi im currently trying to write a small program for my final project about networks but i really dont know were to start on it
this is what im tring to do
im using c to make a server send and display an image on one of 10 client pc's then with some small input from one or more of those clients the server will change the image displayed on the clients
hope some one can point me in teh right direction
p.s im using both visual basic on windows and Blue fish on linux
You should decide how your client will connect to the server:
sockets, named pipes, other - this should be a first decision I think
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
yeah its based on sockets and the images are saved on both client and servers
Then you sould start with creating small application - that just opens some socket for listening and prints messages about any socket event - especially CONNECT
And test it with your client (Is it already ready?)
When your application will work - you will accept the connection and try to send a file on the accepted fd to the client
When it will work - you will add the latest functionality - wait for additional request from client and send back another picture on request.
(I hope you already know how to open a file in binary mode and read its contents into memory)
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
– David J. Wheeler
Try searching for "sockets client server sample code". On my first assignment on network sockets i survived just with the man pages, but some small snippets out there are best to point out the socket way of life...Originally Posted by kaijuu
A typical example of ...cheap programming practices.Code:... goto johny_walker_red_label; johny_walker_blue_label: exit(-149$); johny_walker_red_label : exit( -22$);
just to clerify when you change a image to binary you read it to c like a txt document and send that over the socket
so how would i change it back from binary at the other end and display it on screen
also can a simple sockets program handle 10 clients and would i just do a ten client connection loop
any ideas
just another thought
could i save the image on to the client computer and say, send a short string to the client and when it recives this string it displays the image that is stored in its memory
not sure if this is possible as im still quite new to c
Yes, you could do that.
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Mats
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