Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a transport layer protocol that provides a connection-oriented data stream service with guaranteed, in-order delivery.

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TCP async client with connection lost detection and autoreconnecting [migrated]

Here is my many-years many times modified code for TCP asynchronous client. It is able to detect connection loss (thanks to using keep alive values). But now, I need to reconnect it to server ...
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Read and Write TCP Streams

I am working on an in memory on disk cache and am using TCP to send data between the client and server Testing locally things seem to be working alright. I've written a small test client so I can ...
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Protocol implementation, TCP, sending images through sockets (sockets, python)

I would like to ask about your opinion about my code. The idea is simple: I designed my own protocol, where client asks server about the image, and the server sends the image, following the below ...
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Implementing my own network protocol using TCP, sending images through sockets (sockets, python)

I would like to ask about your opinion about my code. The idea is simple: I designed my own protocol, where client asks server about the image, and the server sends the image, following the below ...
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Simple and effective port checker in C++

Intro A couple of weeks ago I finished a Python implementation of a multithreaded port checker and I wasn't quite happy with the result I've got (speed). I needed it to be faster, so I've built ...
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C multithreaded chat client and server

I've written a TCP chat application for the command line that supports multithreading. I'm wondering whether I'm using best practices for socket programming, what other types of functionality would ...
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Winsock recv all bytes

I had some issues with sending huge data and receiving them with Winsock so I made some improvements on my RecvAllBytes function and the same with ...
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Server-client data transfer

I coded a server-client (kind of) chat, and I need your review as I'm sure it is a mess. I used lots of tutorials and tips form different websites and forums which were posted at different times (...
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16-bit Checksum function in C

I was playing with TCP/IP, and came across this 16 bit checksum function: ...
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Asynchronous TCP server

After some investigation, I implemented an asynchronous TCP server as per the following example. During my investigation I was unable to find an example that cleanly shuts down the server; after some ...
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Sending ACK/NACK for packets

The code is working perfectly. I'm little bit sure this is a packet what I am sending from client to server in streams. Is this packet? Am I sending in a right way? Another thing is that I am sending ...
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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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Linux performance using multi-threads (vs one thread) and ssh message

My server receives requests in one thread and responds in another. I am using thread pools of pthread-s for both receiving and sending. The performance is not that bad, however... When I am doing the ...
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Simplify TcpListener application in C#

I have a simple application that can receive and send tcp data. right now there's a thread used to start the listener and within this thread there's another thread to receive. it works but it seems ...
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Simple multi-client echo server

I've been looking at some async comms in C#. As a proof of concept, I've written a simple multi-client echo server. The server allows multiple TCP clients to connect and listens for input from the ...
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Simple TCP server using TPL

I have a working C# code of a TCP server that runs inside a windows service. It accepts incoming connections and starts sending/receiving data based on some complex rules. The top-level class for ...
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Async TCP connection that handles reading and writing

My situation is as such: I must connect to a server via TCP, at the end of the session (several hours), they will close the connection - throwing an exception that should be gracefully handled I need ...
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Node js server that create, read, and update user data using TCP socket and AES encryption

I've written a Node js server that create, read, and update user data from a SQL server hosted in Azure. Clients connect to the server using a standard TCP socket, every message sent or received will ...
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Custom TCP protocol concurrent chat server

So the task was to first create a custom TCP protocol (namely ebl0) with certain parameters in its header and a number of methods to use with it (e.g. Login, Create, Join etc.). I'm not listing it ...
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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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TCP server with tasks

I'm writing a TCP server using tasks and I wanted to know if there's something I can improve and how I am doing. ConnectionHandler.cs: ...
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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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TCPListener server to discover clients on a network

I am currently writing a program to sync files (music, photos, etc) from my PC to an Android device. In order to do this, I have 2 application: one that is running on my PC, and one that shall be ...
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Simple TCP proxy

EDIT The previous proxy code, after thorough testing, had issues with the stream_copy_to_stream() when sending from $client ...
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Buffer for TCP data

For an assignment (not school), I was supposed to make a "web browser" using Scapy. While storing the response, I initially thought of ...
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Simple Go TCP server and client

I'm a Go (and programming in general) newbie and the task was to program a Go server that would accept incoming messages, take each line, reverse its order and case and send it back. Besides doing ...
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Simple web server in Flash

I just got into Node.JS and am loving it but I am wondering if I am learning it the right way or using it. This is basically a simple server in Flash but I want to see if am doing it right with ...
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PHP TCP socket server

I created a PHP script which will be running 24/7 as a TCP socket server and will send data from the DB back to clients. The code is working, and so far, I see no problems. However, I can only test ...
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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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TCP authentication server and client

This is the first time I'm dealing with C# as I'm accustomed to Java sockets, so I do want your full review and anything you think I can accomplish better or optimize in the code will be very ...
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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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Socket application using TPL

This is an application I wrote that allows multiple TCP clients to share a single TCP connection to a remote server (hosted project, and a demo). Traffic generated by the server is forwarded to all ...
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Server connection handler in Python

I am working on a server for a smart house. This part of code is responsible for communication with client (separate application), sending requested data and ensuring everything is safe. I've decided ...
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Python 3 NetScanner Daemon

I’m pretty new to programming and python in particular. This is a simple ICMP/TCP scanner that dumps output to a terminal and/or csv file. My goal was to make a daemon that could do simple scanning ...
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Modbus connection over TCP and Serial port

I want to improve my code. In this code I don't like my constructor, but without it I keep getting an error while trying to connect NullPointerException. ...
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TCP client and server supporting six simple commands

For a class, I was given an assignment to code a simple TCP connection between a server and a client. Once the TCP handshake is done, the client sends inquiries to the server. It's a 2 second ...
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Common client server implementation

I have created a common C file for a basic client server. It works fine on my Linux setup. Please provide your comments/suggestions on how the code can be optimized/enhanced. After compiling we need ...
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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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MultiThreaded TCP Server with high CPU usage

I wrote simple C# TCP Server application and my program use a lot of cup, i was wondering anyone can review my code and would be grateful for any hints and suggestion. This is my code. ...
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Basic Server/Client Model built around ASIO

For this project, I'm using the non-Boost version of the ASIO library. The basic idea is that it is a relatively simple stand-alone class capable of functioning either as a server or client depending ...
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Adds digital signature to outgoing TCP packet

The code connects multiple clients to a server using TCP sockets asynchronously. I have added code to attach a digital signature to the outgoing messages from the server, to authenticate the message ...
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TCP connection pool

I am looking for any feedback on my connection pool implementation (I removed the documentation so this post isn't so bloated). The pool times-out idle connections after a certain timeout interval ...
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Reading and Writing Messages from a Socket

This is code from my android client which communicates over wifi to a small server program (not coded in java). This is my first time playing around with sockets, so I'm sure there are lots of little ...
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Probe for open application on a TCP port

I need to examine an application port to see if it opens and I need to put the retry count as a parameter. Since I'm new to Node I wanted to get your feedback on it for improvements. ...
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Simple TCP client-server solution

I have implemented a simple client-server solution using Java sockets and useful classes from java.util.concurrent. The communication protocol is rather simple: ...
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Design watchdog, reconnecting to server

I have console application that sends and process XML data. I have created a fault mechanism that the connection drops. I go in a "fault" mode. And try to reconnect to my server. I'm sending ...