Hello guys,
I have a TCP Listener Server which listens to requests and replies them. It is working fine in a particular network. But what if i would need to make it available for everyone (my clients) over internet to connect to it and send receive messages/data? My current code is working fine in LAN setup but what things I need to make to let my clients/users connect to it over internet?
please help me. Following is the code:
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
public class ThreadedTcpSrvr {
private TcpListener client;
public ThreadedTcpSrvr()
{
client = new TcpListener(8000);
client.Start();
Console.WriteLine("Waiting for clients...");
while(true)
{
while (!client.Pending())
{
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
ConnectionThread newconnection = new ConnectionThread();
newconnection.threadListener = this.client;
Thread newthread = new Thread(new
ThreadStart(newconnection.HandleConnection));
newthread.Start();
}
}
public static void Main()
{
ThreadedTcpSrvr server = new ThreadedTcpSrvr();
}
}
class ConnectionThread
{
public TcpListener threadListener;
private static int connections = 0;
public void HandleConnection()
{
int recv;
byte[] data = new byte[1024];
TcpClient client = threadListener.AcceptTcpClient();
NetworkStream ns = client.GetStream();
connections++;
Console.WriteLine("New client accepted: {0} active connections",
connections);
string welcome = "Welcome to Server";
data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(welcome);
ns.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
while(true)
{
data = new byte[1024];
recv = ns.Read(data, 0, data.Length);
if (recv == 0)
break;
ns.Write(data, 0, recv);
}
ns.Close();
client.Close();
connections--;
Console.WriteLine("Client disconnected: {0} active connections",
connections);
}
}