Quote Originally Posted by wiiire View Post
I think I'm settling on sockets... Does that make me evil?

After I see a certain number of wrappers my brain just starts screaming "no"......
nope, both are valid choices. personally I would use asio a) because it's already done alot of the socket work for you (which is always a good thing) and b) because it's likely to become the standard C++ way of networking (so it'd be good to have a headstart on it).

but horses for courses...