Hi, I was wondering how to make a program listen on a port... lests say port 54321. All I want for it to do is listen for any message sent on that port, and then output "54321"... Is this as simple as I think, or is it something that is going to require a lot more knowledge of tcp/ip and such? If you cannot answer my question on your own, can you at least point me towards a tutorial or something?
Thanks much!
Try Reading Socket Programming.
what you are actually doing is creating a server listening on Port, this can be achieved using WinSock on windows Plateform, same can be done on linux using the socket API defined for linux.
int main ()
{
// Initialize the Socket Environment.
// Create Server side Socket.
// Define Address information & Port.
// Bind to that information.
// Start Listening on specified information.
// Upon Connection Get the Information.
// Process the Information.
return 0;
}hope the above alogirthm might help you.
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