what exactly does this library do?

[Dy7SLyTq]

so im new to networking, and found this library online and it looks really cool http://www.keithschwarz.com/interesting/code/?dir=nstream and just had some questions about it. firstly, what is it reading/writing? lets say i connect to google.com, and start reading from it, what will i get? is it html/js/css source? secondly, how well will this work in a thread?

[kbw]

It looks like it's an iostream binding for TCP/IP (using sockets). You'll also need the matching streambuf.

[naraku9333]

lets say i connect to google.com, and start reading from it, what will i get?

If you just connect, you probably wont get anything. You need to send a request.

int main()
{
	nstream nstr;
	nstr.open("www.computerhope.com", 80);

	nstr << "GET " << "/jargon/a/kirk.txt" << " HTTP / 1.0\r\n";
	nstr << "Host: " << "www.computerhope.com" << "\r\n";
	nstr << "Accept: */*\r\n";
	nstr << "Connection: close\r\n\r\n";
	nstr.flush();
	std::cout << nstr.rdbuf();
}

Edit: If you're looking to get into network programming I would recommend boost::asio it is far more feature full.