Synopses & Reviews
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 networked-based 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 real-world examples, this book is a complete beginner's guide to socket programming and a springboard to more advanced networking topics, including multimedia protocols.
x Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing.
x Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing.
x Includes a detailed, easy-to-use reference to the system calls and auxiliary routines that comprise the sockets interface.
x 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.
Review
"I would recommend this book in my course- it is a very good, concise and well organised tutorial. I think the book like it is will be of great help."
-Arian Durresi, Ohio State University, USA
Synopsis
This book fills a void in the area of networking education. The presentation is easily accessible to students, with lots of code examples. It will be an excellent companion to traditional networking textbooks for use in undergraduate and introductory graduate courses.
-Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology
This is the best, all-in-one socket book I have read and yet it doesn't come with the unnecessary overhead of many other books. It is loaded with very useful examples and it can be used as a socket API reference as well. In a word, it is a very well written book that has everything practitioners need.
-Steve Bernier, Communications Research Center
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 networked-based 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 real-world examples, this book is a complete beginner's guide to socket programming and a springboard to more advanced networking topics, including multimedia protocols.
Features:
- Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing.
- Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing.
- Includes a detailed, easy-to-use 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.
Synopsis
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 networked-based 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 real-world examples, this book is a complete beginner's guide to socket programming and a springboard to more advanced networking topics, including multimedia protocols.
* Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing.
* Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing.
* Includes a detailed, easy-to-use 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.
Synopsis
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 networked-based 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 real-world examples, this book is a complete beginner's guide to socket programming and a springboard to more advanced networking topics, including multimedia protocols.
* Concise, no-nonsense explanations of issues often troublesome for beginners, including message construction and parsing.
* Comprehensive example-based coverage of the most important TCP/IP techniques-including iterative and concurrent servers, timeouts, and asynchronous message processing.
* Includes a detailed, easy-to-use 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.
About the Author
Michael J. Donahoo is an assistant professor at Baylor University. His research interests are in large-scale information dissemination and management.
Kenneth L. Calvert is an associate professor at University of Kentucky,
where he teaches and does research on the design and implementation of
computer network protocols. He wrote his first TCP/IP socket program in the
mid 1980s.
Table of Contents
I Tutorial
1 Introduction
2 Basic Sockets
3 Constructing Messages
4 Using UDP Sockets
5 Socket Programming
6 Under The Hood
7 Domain Name Service
II API Reference
Data Structures
Socket Setup
Socket Connection
Socket Communication
Socket Control
Binary/String Conversion
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