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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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Lewis Van Winkle Lewis Van Winkle
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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

A UDP server

It will be useful to look at a UDP server that's been designed to service many connections. Fortunately for us, the UDP socket API makes this very easy.

We will take the motivating example from our last chapter, which was to provide a service that converts all text into uppercase. This is useful because you can directly compare the UDP code from here to the TCP server code from Chapter 3, An In-Depth Overview of TCP Connections.

Our server begins by setting up the socket and binding to our local address. It then waits to receive data. Once it has received a data string, it converts the string into all uppercase and sends it back.

The program flow looks as follows:

If you compare the flow of this program to the TCP server from the last chapter (Chapter 3, An In-Depth Overview of TCP Connections), you will find that it's much simpler. With TCP, we had to...

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