Does anybody know a good Winsock tutorial? I'm looking for something that tells you a lot about what is actually happening, and not just source code to type in.
Does anybody know a good Winsock tutorial? I'm looking for something that tells you a lot about what is actually happening, and not just source code to type in.
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Petzold's Windows book has a Winsock tutorial in it. Not sure how good it is though because I have not gotten there yet.
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Try this site
http://www.private.org.il/tcpip_rl.html
least give you some books to look up.
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I usually recommend this one first...
>>> http://world.std.com/~jimf/papers/sockets/sockets.html
... then graduate to this...
>>> http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/
...
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http://www.hal-pc.org/~johnnie2/winsock.html for a bare-bones approach and a little sample code.
This was recommended to me, and i wtill swear by its principles in all of my servers and clients.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming:
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I really like the Beej's guide, I found it really good. Oh well.
>>Petzold's Windows book has a Winsock tutorial in it. Not sure how good it is though because I have not gotten there yet.<<
IMO he really only skims it. I didn't find it very good for sockets. Not compared to online sources anyhow.