TCP/IP Sockets in C, 2nd Edition

Chapter 8 Socket Programming in C++^*

This book is for people who want to understand sockets. It’s for people who want to know not only how to get a couple of programs to communicate over a network but also how and why the Sockets API works like it does. Or course, lots of developers use sockets all the time without really understanding these details. It’s common to use sockets via a library that offers a simplified interface to socket creation, name resolution, and message transmission. This is particularly common in object-oriented languages like C++ and Java, where it’s easy to wrap socket functionality in a collection of related classes.

The PracticalSocket library was developed to help expose students to the basics of socket programming without ...