Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Socket Programming in C (The Morgan Kaufmann Practical Guides Series)

The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Sockets is a quick and affordable way to gain the knowledge and skills you need to develop sophisticated and powerful networkedbased programs using sockets. Written by two experienced networking instructors, this book provides a series of examples that demonstrate basic sockets techniques for clients and servers.Using plenty of realworld examples, this book is a complete beginners guide to socket programming and a springboard to more advanced networking topics, including multimedia protocols.* Concise, nononsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing.* Comprehensive examplebased coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniquesincluding iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing.* Includes a detailed, easytouse 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.