Algorithms Electronics File Formats Freeware Games Programming Hardware/Architecture HTML/CCS & Java/Javascript Humour Link Site,Library Linux,GNU Magazines/Books Network Protocols Networks New/Latest Stuff Programming Languages Servers/ISAPI/ IO Completion Ports Sound/Music and Multimedia Source Code Visual Basic Windows Winsock | WinsockWindows 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.Linkshttp://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/9/78.ASP Q131978 - HOWTO Receive-Send Multicasts Under WinNT-Win95 Using WinSockhttp://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 |
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