An endpoint of a bidirectional inter-process communication flow. This often refers to a process flow over a network connection, but by no means is limited to such.

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Class which encapsulates related socket streams

I have a class which encapsulates stream related objects, and I have provided the method API for doing basic manipulation on the stream read/write/close, but is this a good approach? The only benefit ...
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Receiving messages from TCP socket and processing them

I would like someone to look at my class for reading messages from a network socket. In short, the whole app should behave like a regular ping command with some additional functionalities. The point ...
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Socket client in C using threads

I'm working on socket programming in C. I have no problem with usage the threads. This all works fine but I'm new in this area. I wrote this code in client.c but is there any misused code or something ...
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Implementation of an asynchronous UDP server Listener

I have written this code in C# and have tested this code to ensure it works well. Any other suggestions for this code would be appreciated as I have a number of users who are sending data on this port....
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Download website source through Socks4 using Winsock

I just have started to introduce myself into network programming using C++. So I started with Winsock. The code I made is compiled with MinGW and works perfectly! As a beginner, the main purpose of ...
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Simple TCP Listener class

This is my first winsock TCP listener ever written. I can use it for a small framework. tcp_listener.h: ...
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msysGit to Unix sockets

I wrote this small script to help porting msysGit sockets to WSL ("Bash for Windows"). I'm not a big Python programmer so any feedback would be well appreciated. By the way, I made it a public Gist ...
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Reading socket stream to parse XML, queue messages, run system cmd in thread

I've had great experience in the past getting feedback from uDev and python, but I'm dreading this attempt at C++. I have a little background in C - but absolutely none in C++ - so this code is ...
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Simple file server for GET requests

I recently made this simple server in C for Linux systems and was wanting to get another set of eyes on it for a review of the design. I am new to socket programming and used a textbook from school to ...
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TCP socket server using OpenSSL

I've written this basic TCP socket server that uses SSL. This is my first experience with sockets in C++. The client is a Qt desktop application. Code overview: Receive incoming connection. Check if ...
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Simple PacketHandler class

I can recently coded an emulation system and in this project I have a PacketHandler for each player connected to a socket server, and each player receives packets (data) from the client application. ...
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Penetration testing in an unsuitable environment

There are good penetration testing tools in the market in which we can perform various activities gather information from the hosts effectively. But those tools are not helpful always like if we are ...
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Blocking TCP Client with Threads vs. Non-Blocking TCP Client with Unitys Update

I'm not sure if this is the right subsite of stackexchange because it's not only about code review but a bit about design eihter. I'm currently developing a network application. I need to connect a (...
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Multithreaded Client/ Server communication

This is my first network programming codes writing for a client who has the following requirement: My Server has to run 24*7*365 for multiple clients at the same time (concurrency). Their Client (...
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TCP Server using Winsock IO Completion ports model

I implemented a tcp socket server using the Microsoft IO Completion Port Model, which is basically an asynchronous model where WSAXXX function return immediately and you use a worker thread to handle ...
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Sending an image from a server to a client over a TCP socket

I only have one video stream of 30 FPS to send over a TCP socket and it's sending a lot of data through my router. Everything just lags I can't even display the image. Is there a way to improve my ...
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TCP chat room in Python

I have recently started looking into networking with Python. I saw some tutorials about the socket library so I decided to give a "live chat room" idea a go. It works (on Windows, ...
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Async TCP client/server

I'm working on a simple async TCP client server application, i'd like my network code to be reviewed. I really feel that I'm doing something wrong, especially in receiving code. Interface for client: ...
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C++ Syncronous Poll Wrapper v2

I recently asked for some feedback on my design for a syncronous wrapper around linux sockets and poll Based on the feedback, I created a new (hopefully more idiomatic) design. socket.h ...
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C++ Socket syncronous poll wrapper

Below is a simple C++ abstraction over linux sockets, and a layer of abstraction over a synchronous poll call. The goal was to exploit move semantics to allow the ...
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PlayerConnection class for Gaming Emulator

I have programmed a Gaming Emulator in C# and I have a class to handle all the connection side of things for the player, here we continuously listen for packets (each packet has a ID like a number, ...
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Termbin.com clone (commandline pastebin)

For fun I decided to write a 'real' Haskell program. The intention of the program is that it listens on a socket on a given port for input. The client can send some raw text on it and the server ...
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Custom Python 'Server Status Checker'

I've written a home-grown solution for checking the status of my servers. This is both an exercise for me in learning further about Python, but it's also critical to status-checking critical things ...
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TCP client library using Winsock WSAEventSelect in C++ - Take 2

This is my second take on creating a tcp client C++ class. The class declaration is general but the implementation is Windows only at this stage and uses the Microsoft Winsock WSAEventSelect model. ...
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TCP server implementation in .NET

I wrote a couple programs in the past that use VB6's Winsock to achieve TCP communications, but still I'm kinda new to socket programming in .NET. I needed the same functionality of the Winsock to ...
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SOXXY: a daemon stated IRC client project

This script is basically a proxy service; except it doesn't require an active client connection. In fact it expects the client connection to connect before, and disconnect after every transaction. ...
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TCP client library using Winsock WSAEventSelect in C++

One way to write a client which uses a specific protocol, eg http like in this case, is to create a base class with the basic socket handling functionality with virtual functions which can be ...
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C++ Socket Part-4

In my ongoing attempts to become a better blog writer I have some written some more code that needs reviewing. Full Source: https://github.com/Loki-Astari/Examples/tree/master/Version4 First Article: ...
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C++ Socket Part-3

In my ongoing attempts to become a better blog writer I have some written some more code that needs reviewing. Full Source: https://github.com/Loki-Astari/Examples/tree/master/Version3 First Article: ...
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C++ Socket Part-2

In my ongoing attempts to become a better blog writer I have some written some more code that needs reviewing. Full Source: https://github.com/Loki-Astari/Examples/tree/master/Version2 First Article: ...
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C Socket Part-1

In my ongoing attempts to become a better blog writer I have some written some more code that needs reviewing. Full Source: https://github.com/Loki-Astari/Examples/tree/master/Version1 First Article: ...
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A socket server that receives strings and prints them

Summary: Is my server handling every error and corner case possible? If not, what did I miss? Details I'm trying to write the most basic socket server I can, so I can learn TCP and the pitfalls of ...
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Protocol to parse packets

I coded this simple protocol but I'm sure that it can be better, this is the process: Reads incoming data Waits until payload size can be read Reads the full message Checks if there are mixed ...
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Event-driven UDP listener wrapper

I wrote this wrapper around the UdpClient,using events for new datagrams: ...
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Multithreaded client socket

This is my first time working with networks and multithreading in C, and would like to know how to make improvements. I wanted to make a client program that handles reading and writing to the server ...
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Chat server implemented using Java NIO

I am learning Java's NIO and as an exercise, I have implemented a simple chat server. I would like to ask if I am using NIO's features in the correct way. ...
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async tcp server using async/await

Here is an async Tcp server using async/await I have written. I would be very appreciate if anyone can help to improve my code. Thank you! ...
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C++ Version of a Client/Server application

Starting to write an article about Socket Programing. So I need a simple C++ version of a client/server app. So here it is for review (Also on github) A linked question is the C version Makefile <...
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C Version of a Client/Server application

Starting to write an article about Socket Programing. So I need a simple C version of a client/server app. So here it is for review (Also on github) A linked question is the C++ version MakeFile <...
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Server socket “wrap” functions

This is a small socket library I made to avoid complicated C boilerplate code and several #includes for connecting sockets, bind, listening etc. Please note that <...
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Finding local C# servers on a Java client using UDP and reactive extensions

This program uses UDP broadcast to find app servers on the local network. When a server receives a client broadcast, it sends a port (integer) to the client which will later be used to create a TCP ...
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Java NIO server Selector loop

I have a server that uses Java NIO in non-blocking mode. Right now I'm using a single thread for the selector, and four worker threads to process the bytes after ...
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UDP Server Design and Performance

What I'm doing I am writing a server to work as my games backend. The server is being written in C# using UDP as the protocol, while the game is in C++. The biggest thing I've been focusing on was ...
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Android app that listens for commands over a socket

I've just begun programming Java and I'm working on the following code that deals with socket-based communications. Basically it connects to a client on port 8888: Gist of code ...
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A full-duplex connection to an IRC server

This connection class can be used, through composition, to make IRC clients for different kinds of IRC services. ...
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GPSD socket connection and decoding JSON into Python dictionaries

GPS3 is a python 2.7-3.5 interface to GPSD. I've stripped back everything to two classes. ...
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Replacing Skype, reinventing the chat client

I'm creating a chat client and chat server after a several month programming hiatus. The goal is to make one with features I want but it's also a learning project. Although it's mostly because I'm ...
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Python HTTP Server

This is one of my first times writing Python. I'm most curious about style and whether while 1: x,y = socket.accept() is an acceptable way to wait for new ...
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Testing a socket-based application

Summary: How can I best write tests that override socket-based communication for a library, capturing what is sent over the socket, and simulating responses based on what is sent? Details I'm adding ...