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Hi Dw. I'm having a client server which the server read a text file line by line and send each line to the client upon client connection. The problem I'm having is that on the client side the data is combined, meaning I get all lines that are on the …

Good Day Everyone: I am creating a tabulating system for a bikini open. How can you create a client-sever application with database on server without using winsock control? One server for monitoring and document printing. I need client for multiple judges (atleat 5) you can add and remove. And a …

I have now read a total of 5 different winsock tutorials and I still do not get how sockets work! Could somebody please explain how to make a program that will allow n computers to share data with each other. As an example could somebody make a 'game' with the …

I am trying to understand how sockets work with winsock, but I just don't get it. I basically want to be able to create these functions: SomeDataType ConnectToComputer(const char *ConnectionName);//connect to the connection named ConnectionName SomeDataType CreateConnection(const char *ConnectionName);//create a connection called ConnectionName bool ReadData(SomeDataType, unsigned char *outdata, int outsize);//read …

Hello all! I really want to make a chat that runs over a network, but Microsoft nor Ostrosoft winsock works. I know I am doing it right, plus for Ostrosoft winsock you need to install its program thing on each computer you use your program on. I did sort of …

Hi ! I'm trying to learn about sockets using winsock in c++. What I want to do is have one computer (my computer) act as a mini server for my friend to connect to directly from his house (different ISP). I am wondering if it is possible using sockets to …

Hi! this is my first thread here. Please help me. I have no clue how to start monitoring "another computer" in vb.net. I want to make a program just like a "cafe client" that monitors and manipulate another computer. Should i use Winsock? because I had red that winsock is …

Hi, So I have a very simple server/client program using winsock. In C++. Using MingW as a compiler. This is the code part which does the connecting: [CODE]for(;;) { if(Connect = accept(Listen, (SOCKADDR*)&Server, &size)) { std::cout<<"\nConnection was reached"; } }[/CODE] How can I send and receive simple text from server …

Question is: [B]How can I send two strings using SendData in different packets?[/B] Because when I try to send two strings one after another, winsock joins them in a single packet thus making one string received from client/server. For example: [CODE]Winsock1.SendData "String1" Winsock1.SendData "String2"[/CODE] The final received data will be: …

Hi, I am using WinSock library for sending data over network, and I have a problem. I know how to send data in one struct and receive it on the other side, because there is constant size of structure. But what if I have more structures, each one with different …

Hello everyone. I am having an issue with flash style connection So I start off by connecting to port 843 and requesting a <policy-file-request/> The server sends me this: <cross-domain-policy> <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-… /> <allow-access-from domain="*website.com" secure="false" /> <allow-access-from domain="*website.com" to-ports="443-49151"/> </cross-domain-policy> Since it is non secure, I try to connect …

I am developing an application in VB6 which will communicate using UDP Connection to a hardware which recieves and sends data using UDP Connection. My Hardware works fine. It has already been tested with an application written in VisualC using UDP connection only. In VisualC, I had working on UDP …

Hi guys here is my problem.I am trying to send ICMP packets to a HOST using WINSOK.So here is my code: [CODE]#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN #include <winsock2.h> #include <ws2tcpip.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define IP_RECORD_ROUTE 0x7 // // IP header structure // typedef struct _iphdr { unsigned int h_len:4; // Length of …

Hello, I was working on my Server - Client comunicating programm for moonth or more, when a tricky issue had met me. I works so: Server does certain commands if client types certain commnads, and I need need the Client to do certain commands if Server types certain commands. I …

I am developing a network chat application, I am using Winapi, my main window is a dialog (created from a .rc file). I am looking into a way of doing an text box where my outuput text can be like this: [QUOTE] [COLOR="Green"]Welcome to ##### chat server![/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]Person1[/COLOR] says: Hi …

Hi During the last 6 months or so I've worked on and off on a couple of a classes to send data over network using winsock and asynchronous sockets on windows. Basically my system works like this. The server will send packets on a connection until WSAGetLastError() returns WSAEWOULDBLOCK the …

Hi, I am trying to learn winsock programming using online tutorials. This example is from the MSDN library, although modified. I have compiled it and it seems to be working fine for only one request. After handling a single request the server exits. I have read handling multiple request and …

Hi everyone! Is there a way/command in C to find a string that is contained in a longer string? I'm currently developing a C program in Windows that sends requests to a machine and gets its response through socket programming. The response is an image in jpeg/jfif format. The whole …

Hi, What command/technique is needed in a C program to receive image bytes through socket programming from an HTTP response? I want to develop a program that requests for an image from a server, then upon receiving the bytes comprising the image, it should write these bytes into a newly …

I am a newbie to network programming. I been trying my luck with winsock and am stuck with no idea what to do. Here is a snippet of my code: [CODE]//Bind it to a TCP/IP port SOCKADDR_IN SockAddr; SockAddr.sin_port=24; /*Port to be used*/ SockAddr.sin_family=AF_INET; /*Connection Type: TCP/IP*/ /*Listen on IP …

Hi all. I'm trying to develop a Winsock program in C. I can already compile the program correctly but I don't get any output when I run it. I don't know how to exactly use the WSAStringToAddressA function so I think it's the root of my problem. I'm using this …

Hi everybody, this text turned out to be rather long and maybe not so clear, please excuse me. I'm currently using the winsock library to send and receive data in an application made with WinAPI, I'm not using MFC. I'm using asynchronous sockets (I think that's what it's called) which …

I started learning Winsock (2.2) programming in university recently and when writing my first program (fileserver and its client) a few questions came to mind. Let`s assume my fileserver is continuously listening for client connections and when one occurs it establishes connection, does whatever client wants (such things as list …

Hi im new to the forum & c++. I just want to upload a txt file to a FTP server using winsock. Im writing a c++ application. Application makes a socket connection & communicate with FTP server. I can provide FTP commands & server responses well. I want to know …

Please, How do I properly add a Winsock Control in WPF for purpose of LAN applications? I tried adding the Winsock control dynamically but then the event functions are not available then. Note: Using WindowsFormHost does not show in my WPF application. Help please!

Hi I am trying to write an application for connecting to JABBER chat server,something like a chat client.i know there are many ways to do this like using agsXMPP library or jabber-net library,i wanna know can someone help me and tell me how can i use Winsock (mswinsck.ocx) to do …

Hi all My code for the server side : [CODE] Dim bmp As New Bitmap(My.Computer.Screen.Bounds.Width, My.Computer.Screen.Bounds.Height, Imaging.PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb) Dim gfx As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bmp) gfx.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, My.Computer.Screen.Bounds.Size, CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy) Winsock1.SendData(bmp)[/CODE] And for the client side in the DataArrival event : [CODE] On Error Resume Next Dim img As Image Winsock1.GetData(img) …

Hey everyone, I am developing code to accept TCP communcations from one computer to another. Basically from this forum, all I need is the ability to send a data string to the other computer. here is the code I have to do so. they both are the same application, but …

Hi.. i'm using a winsock control to transfer files between two computers which are in the same network..(LAN) and it works fine. Is there a way to transfer a file to another computer that it is not in my network? For example from my computer to a friend's computer.. Any …

Hey all, Trying to get a simple LAN based chat program going (required to use UDP and multicasting). I've tried both client/server and p2p implementations, yet I still can't seem to get it working. The best I've gotten with client/server is that clients on pc1 and pc2 will connect to …