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Hands-On Network Programming with C

You're reading from  Hands-On Network Programming with C

Product type Book
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349863
Pages 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Lewis Van Winkle Lewis Van Winkle
Profile icon Lewis Van Winkle

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Introducing Networks and Protocols 2. Getting to Grips with Socket APIs 3. An In-Depth Overview of TCP Connections 4. Establishing UDP Connections 5. Hostname Resolution and DNS 6. Building a Simple Web Client 7. Building a Simple Web Server 8. Making Your Program Send Email 9. Loading Secure Web Pages with HTTPS and OpenSSL 10. Implementing a Secure Web Server 11. Establishing SSH Connections with libssh 12. Network Monitoring and Security 13. Socket Programming Tips and Pitfalls 14. Web Programming for the Internet of Things 1. Answers to Questions 2. Setting Up Your C Compiler on Windows 3. Setting Up Your C Compiler on Linux 4. Setting Up Your C Compiler on macOS 5. Example Programs 6. Other Book You May Enjoy Index

A first UDP client/server


To drive these points home, it will be useful to work through a full UDP client and UDP server program.

To keep things simple, we will create a UDP client program that simply sends the Hello World string to 127.0.0.1 on port 8080. Our UDP server listens on 8080. It prints any data it receives, along with the sender's address and port number.

We will begin by implementing the simple UDP server.

A simple UDP server

We will start with the server, since we already have a usable UDP client, that is, udp_client.c.

Like all of our networked programs, we will begin by including the necessary headers, starting with the main() function, and initializing Winsock as follows:

/*udp_recvfrom.c*/

#include "chap04.h"

int main() {

#if defined(_WIN32)
    WSADATA d;
    if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &d)) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to initialize.\n");
        return 1;
    }
#endif

If you've been working through this book in order, this code should be very routine for you...

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