TCP/IP Sockets in C
Practical Guide for Programmers

This succinct new edition of our best-selling title presents everything you need know to get up and running with C sockets programming in one affordable volume!

Michael J. Donahoo (Author), Kenneth L. Calvert (Author)

9780123745408, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 22 April 2009

216 pages
23.4 x 19 x 1.5 cm, 0.46 kg

"Despite my having developed systems software with Sockets and C for 20+ years, I find myself still needing a book like this one. It covers all the subtleties and gotchas that one encounters when writing distributed applications in C with Sockets." --Bobby Krupczak, The Krupczak Organization

TCP/IP Sockets in C: Practical Guide for Programmers, Second Edition is a quick and affordable way to gain the knowledge and skills needed to develop sophisticated and powerful web-based applications. The book's focused, tutorial-based approach enables the reader to master the tasks and techniques essential to virtually all client-server projects using sockets in C. This edition has been expanded to include new advancements such as support for IPv6 as well as detailed defensive programming strategies.

1 Introduction
2 Basic TCP Sockets
3 Of Names and Address Families
4 Using UDP Sockets
5 Sending and Receiving Data
6 Beyond the Basic Socket Programming
7 Under the Hood
8 Socket Programming in C++

Subject Areas: Networking standards & protocols [UTP], Computer networking & communications [UT]