Programming

Originally Posted by botao

here's my two cents: "you just have to do as if in a file copy program" ;

- that's the whole idea behind sockets ... once a connection is established , it's just another good ol' file i/o thing !

- the only detail you should bear in mind is that the default packet size is 1500 bytes, and it's no use reading(receiving) or writing(sending) chunks bigger than this ;

(remember : this is plain bread-and-butter default conditions - for newbies - and anything more complicated than this can be done with proper study)

finally, some sample code (for the client who sends the file):

Code:

int sockfd , count ;
char buf[1500] ;
/* plain connection */
sockfd = socket (AF_INET, ...) ;
connect (sockfd, ...) ;
/* now the good ol' plain file i/o */
while (filesize > 0) {
   count = send (sockfd, buf, 1500, 0) ;
   filesize -= count ;
}

good luck, and success !
alexandre botao
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