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Winsock

Windows Socket Programming is the standard used in windows to access network resources. It is based on the Berkeley sockets standard, found in almost all operating systems these days.

Links

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/9/78.ASP Q131978 - HOWTO Receive-Send Multicasts Under WinNT-Win95 Using WinSock
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/6/11.ASP Q181611 - INFO: Socket Overlapped I/O Versus Blocking/Non-blocking Mode
tcp4u/ TCP4U is a great library that supports http, smtp, etc.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/vwelch/net_perf/tcp_windows.html The reason for this is that there are only 16 bits reserved for the window size in the TCP header, which only allows for window sizes up to 64 kilobytes For example if a pair of hosts are talking over a TCP connection that has a TCP window size of 64 KB (kilobytes), the sender can only send 64 KB of data and then it must stop and wait for an acknowledgment from the receiver that some or all of the data has been received Note that many architectures have limits on the size of the socket buffer ...
http://www.goodnet.com/~esnible/winsock.html This page is designed to give the programmer enough information to know where to look to get the actual information.
http://www.trumpet.com.au Trumpet Winsock
http://www.intel.com/ial/winsock2/
http://www.sockets.com Windows Sockets Network Programming
http://miracle.geol.msu.ru/rpa/ps.html Winsock Proxy
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/9/78.ASP Q131978 - HOWTO Receive-Send Multicasts Under WinNT-Win95 Using WinSock
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q124/8/76.ASP Q124876 - INFO Sockets Applications on Microsoft Windows Platforms
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1000/Winsock/print.asp Windows Sockets 2.0: Write Scalable Winsock Apps Using Completion Ports
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q192/8/00.ASP Q192800 - INFO: Design Issues When Using IOCP in a Winsock Server

Copyright Geoffrey Smith 2000