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C Program For Server Side

This document describes the code for creating a basic TCP server and client in C. The server code initializes a port number, creates a socket, binds the socket to the port, listens for connections, accepts connections from clients, receives and sends messages. The client code initializes a socket, gets the server address, connects to the server socket, sends a message to the server, receives a response from the server, and closes the socket. Both the server and client use sockets and socket functions like bind, listen, accept, connect, read and write to establish a basic TCP connection and exchange messages between the client and server.

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C Program For Server Side

This document describes the code for creating a basic TCP server and client in C. The server code initializes a port number, creates a socket, binds the socket to the port, listens for connections, accepts connections from clients, receives and sends messages. The client code initializes a socket, gets the server address, connects to the server socket, sends a message to the server, receives a response from the server, and closes the socket. Both the server and client use sockets and socket functions like bind, listen, accept, connect, read and write to establish a basic TCP connection and exchange messages between the client and server.

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C Program for Server Side

1. int portno=5000; //can use any between 1024 and 65535


2. struct sockaddr_in serv_addr; /* struct sockaddr_in{ short
sin_family; //it is an address family that is used to designate the type of
addresses that socket can communicate with (in this case, IPv4, IPv6
addresses). For the most part, sticking with AF_INET for socket
programming over a network is the safest option.
unsigned short sin_port; // port number to communicate with struct
in_addr sin_addr; // server IP address
char sin_zero[8]; // padding zeros to make structure same size as
SOCKADDR.
};
*/
//<netinet/in.h>
3. bzero((char *) &serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr)); //bzero initializes
structure with zero
4. serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; //used for IPv4
5. serv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; // if specified, socket is
bind to any available local IP address 0.0.0.0
6. serv_addr.sin_port = htons(portno); //specifies port number to bind with,
htons converts short integer to network byte order
7. int sockfd; // used for storing socket descriptor, this only listens to any of
the client’s connect request
8. sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
// AF_INET for IPv4, SOCK_STREAM is for creating TCP connection,
SOCK_DGRAM is for creating UDP connection, 0 is specified TCP/UDP
protocol, otherwise for RAW_STREAM valid IANA protocol needs to be
specified.
9. if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0 ) {
error("ERROR on binding"); }
//bind IP address and port number to create a socket
10. listen(sockfd,5);
/*
first argument specifies socket descriptor where information from client will
be stored
Second argument defines the maximum length to which the queue of
pending connections for sockfd may grow.
*/
}

11.struct sockaddr_in cli_addr; //storing client address


12.socklen_t clilen; //storing length for client address, i.e. 32 bit integer
13.clilen = sizeof(cli_addr);
14.int newsockfd; //socket descriptor for client, this is exclusively returned
for the specific client
15.newsockfd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &cli_addr,
&clilen); //accept returns a socket descriptor through which client and server
communicate
16.char buffer[256]; int n; // buffer for storing client information
17.n = read(newsockfd,buffer,255); //reads information from socket to local
buffer
18.printf("Here is the message: %s\n", buffer);
19.n = write(newsockfd,"I got your message",18); //writes message to the
socket descriptor 20. close(newsockfd);
21. close(sockfd);
C Program for Client Side
1. int sockfd, portno=5000, n;
2. sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
3. struct hostent *server; //<netdb.h>

4. server = gethostbyname(“localhost”); //this command resolves host


address to corresponding IP address
5. struct sockaddr_in serv_addr;
6. bzero((char *) &serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr)); // initializes buffer
7. serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; // for IPv4 family
8. bcopy((char *)server->h_addr, (char *) // copy server IP address
&serv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr, server->h_length);
9. serv_addr.sin_port = htons(portno); //defining port number
10.if (connect(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *) &serv_addr,sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0
) { error("ERROR connecting"); } // initiating connect request to the server
11.char buffer[256]; int n,m; // client buffer to forward request to the server
12.getline(&buffer, &m, stdin);
13.n = write(sockfd, buffer, strlen(buffer));
14.bzero(buffer,255);
15.n = read(sockfd,buffer,255);
16.printf("%s\n", buffer);
17.close(sockfd);

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