Send a file from server to client - Socket Programming in C

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Hello....i am trying to send a file from server to the client using socket programming in C, how do i do this?? basically the client is trying to download a file from the server....

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There are several online networking tutorials online (Beej is a good google term) - I'll assume that you have read these and will ask direct questions on points you do not understand.
The answer to your question, then, is that you

• open socket, listen and accept the client connection
• read from the client what file to serve
• open the file on the server
• read the file chunk by chunk
• each chunk read from file should be written to the socket
• close file
• close socket

[ooops.789]

i understood the procedure to do it, but i am new to socket programming so i am looking for some code that helps me in transferring files....

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Beej

[ooops.789]

i had already gone through beej's guide, but it doesn't describe about files anywhere in the book....

Beej

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The examples on that site direct you how to send information over a network connection. To send a file, just open your file, read from it and write what was read to the network socket.

Specifically, look at this part and instead of the char * used in that code substitute the data from your file.