Looking at the code I forgot:
#define INVALID_SOCKET -1
on unix systems
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Regards, Ron AF Greve
http://moonlit.xs4all.nl
"Moonlit" <news moonlit xs4all nl> wrote in message
news:43b71d8a$0$11064$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
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> Here is how to connect to Host:Port i.e.string Host = "www.host.com";
> int Port = 80;
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> Socket is an int on unix type of systems but SOCKET on windows.
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> #define closesocket as close on unix type systems.
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> Do Connect. The code is pretty much cross platform (I have used it on
> linux and lot's of unices as well as windows) You have to check your OS
> for the headers to include though. On MS-Windows platforms you have to
> initialize the stack (from the top of my head WSAStartup or somethig like
> that) and during linktime you have include the appropriate library (I
> believe inet.lib but just search for select on MSDN and scroll down). For
> Sun-os you also have to add some libraries (just do a man -k select or
> something like that to get the correct manual pages).
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> bool CBaseSocket::Init()
> {
> struct protoent *PE = getprotobyname( "tcp" );
> if( PE ) ProtoNumber = PE->p_proto;
> else ProtoNumber = 6; // Otherwise select proto anyway
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> struct hostent *pHE;
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> //memset( &sin, 0, sizeof sin );
> sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
> sin.sin_port = htons( Port );
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> // Try as dotted notation e.g. 192.168.1.1
> sin.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr( Host.c_str() );
> if( sin.sin_addr.s_addr != -1 )return true;
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> // Try as labels e.g. moonlit.xs4all.nl
> if( ( pHE = gethostbyname( Host.c_str() ) ) == NULL )
> {
> LastError = string( "Couldn't get name" );
> return false;
> }
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> sin.sin_addr.s_addr = *reinterpret_cast<unsigned long*>(
> *pHE->h_addr_list );
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> return true;
> }
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> bool CBaseSocket::Connect()
> {
> bool RetVal = true;
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> if( !Init() )
> {
> LastError = string( "Couldn't convert address" );
> Log << Level2 << LastError << End;
> return false;
> }
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> if( ( Socket = static_cast<SOCKET>( socket( AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0 ) ) )
> == INVALID_SOCKET )
> {
> LastError = string( "Error creating client Socket" );
> Log << Level2 << LastError << End;
> return false;
> }
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> if( connect( Socket, (struct sockaddr*)&sin, sizeof( sin ) ) ==
> SOCKET_ERROR )
> {
> LastError = string( "Couldn't connect to" );
> Log << Level2 << LastError << End;
> closesocket( Socket );
> return false;
> }
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> unsigned long True = 1;
> ioctlsocket( Socket, FIONBIO, &True ); // Hope this works (undocumented)?
> setsockopt( Socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, reinterpret_cast<char*>(
> &True ), sizeof( True ) );
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> return true;
> }
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> Regards, Ron AF Greve
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http://moonlit.xs4all.nl
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> "Mike Curry" <mmcurry@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:1136059932.685132.102570@g43g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...[color=green]
>>I am looking for a simple sample of using sockets to download a page
>> into a string. If anyone knows where I could get a sample, or post one
>> here, that would be great.
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