TCP/IP Sockets in C - Practical Guide for Programmers

"This book fills a void in the area of networking education. The presentation is easily accessible to students, with lots of code examples. It will be an excellent companion to traditional networking textbooks for use in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses."
-Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

"This is the best, all-in-one socket book I have read and yet it doesn't come with the unnecessary overhead of many other books. It is loaded with very useful examples and it can be used as a socket API reference as well. In a word, it is a very well written book that has everything practitioners need."
-Steve Bernier, Communications Research Center

Features

• Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing.
• Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing.
• Includes a detailed, easy-to-use reference to the system calls and auxiliary routines that comprise the sockets interface.
• A companion Web site provides source code for all example programs in both C and WinSock versions, as well as guidance on running the code on various platforms.

Contents

Tutorial

• Introduction
• Basic Sockets
• Constructing Messages
• Using UDP Sockets
• Socket Programming
• Under The Hood
• Domain Name Service

API Reference

• Data Structures
• Socket Setup
• Socket Connection
• Socket Communication
• Socket Control
• Binary/String Conversion
• Host and Service Information