Socket programming

[mcleano]

Hey, does/can anyone recommend a good socket programming library. The platform doesn't really matter tbh. Oh and could someone tell me if winsock is still being used - on wikipedia it says the latest version was updated in 1997 :S

Thanks.

[kbw]

Internetworking With TCP/IP Volume III: Client-Server Programming and Applications, Linux/POSIX Socket Version (with D. Stevens), 2000. 0-13-032071-4

UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second Edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-490012-X

[mcleano]

Sorry I think you misunderstood, I'm after an API recommendation not a book.

[kbw]

winsock2 is current on Windows.

It's built in on UNIX like systems.

[areyoupp]

I found about socket programming but wasn't good.look at this http://www.beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html . that's old

[showcontrolbruce]

I strongly recommend the creatively named 'C++ Sockets Library'. It puts an event based approach onto sockets, and takes care of efficiently polling all your sockets.

http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/

Bruce