This is a simple chat server i developed to better understand sockets.
It supports:
- multiple clients
- basic commands
- custom port
to run the server:
./server port
to run the client("make client" to compile):
./client localhost port
/quit: Quit chatroom./ping: Test./topic <message>: Set topic./nick <nick>: Change nick./msg <uid>: Send PM./list: Show active clients./help: Show commands.
int socket (int family, int type, int protocol);
creates a socket and returns an fd for it
struct sockaddr_in serv; /* IPv4 socket address structure */ int bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*) &serv, sizeof(serv))
bind the socket with an ip and port.
int listen(int sockfd, int backlog);
tell kernel to accept incoming connection requests to the socket.
int accept(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *cliaddr, socklen_t *addrlen);
accept a request and create a new socket for it.
- less memory usage.
- easier IPC(inter process communication).
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campbell/cs50/socketprogramming.html
more will be added