tcp packet overflow

[chris Struhar]

I have to transmit an icon across the internet from a client to a
server which handles connections from many different clients and just
continuously loops through receiving data from the buffer. the icon is
too big to fit in one tcp packet. what would be the easiest way to get
this to work?

thanks for any help.

 

[Kevin Goodsell]

I have to transmit an icon across the internet from a client to a
server which handles connections from many different clients and just
continuously loops through receiving data from the buffer. the icon is
too big to fit in one tcp packet. what would be the easiest way to get
this to work?

No sign of a C++ question here.

http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt
http://www.slack.net/~shiva/offtopic.txt

-Kevin

 

[Jonathan Mcdougall]

I have to transmit an icon across the internet from a client to a

server which handles connections from many different clients and just
continuously loops through receiving data from the buffer. the icon is
too big to fit in one tcp packet. what would be the easiest way to get
this to work?

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.9


Jonathan

 

[emerth]

I have to transmit an icon across the internet from a client to a
server which handles connections from many different clients and just
continuously loops through receiving data from the buffer. the icon is
too big to fit in one tcp packet. what would be the easiest way to get
this to work?

thanks for any help.

C functions send() and recv().

They don't deal in packets, they deal at a rather higher level
with streams. Search for BSD Sockets, Windows Sockets (winsock
or winsock2).

Books:
(1) UNIX Network Programming, Stevens - covers all the bases
and moves over to Windows fairly easily if that's where you live.
(2) MSDN (for Windows)

 

[Kevin Goodsell]

C functions send() and recv().

There are no such functions in C, nor C++.

-Kevin

 

[Mohamed Ghouse]

To transmit data from an Application Program, normally you are not concerned
about framing of packets.

Use existing system calls or library functions & forget the framing of
packets. eg: the BSD's socket interface.
The very popular socket() call & then the read/write calls to receive &
transmit.

You have to state the Platform(OS & Programming Language) on which you are
currently involved.

-Ghouse

 

[Kevin Goodsell]

Mohamed Ghouse wrote:

Please stop top-posting.

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.4

To transmit data from an Application Program, normally you are not concerned
about framing of packets.

Use existing system calls or library functions & forget the framing of
packets. eg: the BSD's socket interface.
The very popular socket() call & then the read/write calls to receive &
transmit.

None of this is standard C++, therefore it is off-topic here.

http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt
http://www.slack.net/~shiva/offtopic.txt

You have to state the Platform(OS & Programming Language) on which you are
currently involved.

Standard solutions do not rely on a particular platform, and
non-standard solutions do not belong here.

-Kevin