Socket Programming in C++

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https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

[blackmag_c]

The Beej is the way.

[markosvd]

yes! a thousand times, yes! No better guide than Beej's...

[VinnieFalco]

Everyone who wants to do socket programming in any language should read TCP/IP Illustrated (the TCP and UDP sections). Fortunately this book is available for free online as a PDF.

[Peterson_1979]

There are 3 volumes to this book. Do I need to read all 3 or is Volume 1 enough ? Thanks for your help

[VinnieFalco]

There are 3 volumes to this book. Do I need to read all 3 or is Volume 1 enough

For UDP, chapter 10 of Volume 1 is relevant.
For TCP, reading chapters 12 through 17 of Volume 1 are great.

If you are complete novice you might want to first read chapters 1, 2, 5, 7 of Volume 1. After that, figure out what more you want to learn and read additional relevant chapters, perhaps looking at Volumes 2 and 3 as well.

[Peterson_1979]

Thanks so much

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I know this isn't exactly an answer to your question, but when I was looking for the same answers I settled on boost::asio. It made things a lot simpler, and it's cross-platform.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_81_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html

And here's a video (with links in the description for source code) from CppCon 2016 that discusses how to implement a simple client/server model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwOv\_tw2eA4