Initiating Internet Stream Connections Example Program
This section describes the procedure for initiating internet stream connections example program.
/*
* This program creates a socket and initiates a connection with
* the socket given in the command line. One message is sent over
* the connection and then the socket is closed, ending the
* connection. The form of the command line is streamwrite
* hostname portnumber.
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define DATA "Half a league, half a league..."
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
int sock;
struct sockaddr_in server;
struct hostent *hp, *gethostbyname();
char buf[1024];
/* Create socket. */
sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sock < 0) {
perror("opening stream socket");
exit(1);
}
/* Connect socket using name specified by command line. */
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_len = sizeof(server);
hp = gethostbyname(argv[1]);
if (hp == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: unknown host", argv[1]);
exit(2);
}
bcopy(hp->h_addr, &server.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
server.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[2]));
if (connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&server, sizeof(server)) < 0) {
perror("connecting stream socket");
exit(1);
}
if (write(sock, DATA, sizeof(DATA)) < 0)
perror("writing on stream socket");
close(sock);
}