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Chatting in TCP/IP
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im new to TCP/IP and I was considering how do you send in winsock a chat message? (you only have to send 4 bytes per packet right?) how do you do that? if your message is too long?
You can send packets much larger than 4 bytes. If you were writing a chat thing in TCP/IP, just send a larger packet and when the other computer receives the packet it can convert the packet to a character string. Shouldn''t be too difficult to program.
Its works like files, the sender writes out to a ''virtual'' file and some time later it shows up in the recievers ''virtual'' file.
Your program get a msg telling it when more data arrives.
Your program get a msg telling it when more data arrives.
If you use TCP/IP sockets there are no packets. You''re streaming data, so in theory your packets send will be 1 byte or 1000 orso...
char *p = "blablabla and some more stuff\r\n";send(s, p, lstrlen(p), 0); This topic is closed to new replies.
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