Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming Cookbook

Accepting connections

When the client application wants to communicate to the server application over a TCP protocol, it first needs to establish a logical connection with that server. In order to do that, the client allocates an active socket and issues a connect command on it (for example by calling the connect() method on the socket object), which leads to a connection establishment request message being sent to the server.

On the server side, some arrangements must be performed before the server application can accept and handle the connection requests arriving from the clients. Before that, all connection requests targeted at this server application are rejected by the operating system.

First, the server application creates and opens an acceptor ...