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Hands-On Network Programming with C

You're reading from   Hands-On Network Programming with C Learn socket programming in C and write secure and optimized network code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349863
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 - Getting Started with Network Programming FREE CHAPTER
2. Introducing Networks and Protocols 3. Getting to Grips with Socket APIs 4. An In-Depth Overview of TCP Connections 5. Establishing UDP Connections 6. Hostname Resolution and DNS 7. Section 2 - An Overview of Application Layer Protocols
8. Building a Simple Web Client 9. Building a Simple Web Server 10. Making Your Program Send Email 11. Section 3 - Understanding Encrypted Protocols and OpenSSL
12. Loading Secure Web Pages with HTTPS and OpenSSL 13. Implementing a Secure Web Server 14. Establishing SSH Connections with libssh 15. Section 4 - Odds and Ends
16. Network Monitoring and Security 17. Socket Programming Tips and Pitfalls 18. Web Programming for the Internet of Things 19. Answers to Questions 20. Setting Up Your C Compiler on Windows 21. Setting Up Your C Compiler on Linux 22. Setting Up Your C Compiler on macOS 23. Example Programs 24. Other Book You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

The example programs from this chapter can be compiled with any modern C compiler. We recommend MinGW on Windows and GCC on Linux and macOS. See appendices B, C, and D for compiler setup.

The code for this book can be found at https://github.com/codeplea/Hands-On-Network-Programming-with-C.

From the command line, you can download the code for this chapter with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/codeplea/Hands-On-Network-Programming-with-C
cd Hands-On-Network-Programming-with-C/chap06

Each example program in this chapter runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. When compiling on Windows, each example program requires linking with the Winsock library. This is accomplished by passing the -lws2_32 option to gcc.

We provide the exact commands needed to compile each example as they are introduced.

All of the example programs in this chapter require...

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