Langugae C - connecting to a server

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Hi there
I'm learning C and was reading several tutorials but they are useless.

I need to learn how to build a simple program which will connect to a Linux server.
That's it.

Please advice

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

What type of connection. FTP, SFTP, SSH. The connection type matters.

SEP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Then Google is your friend. There's a number of good examples of C socket programs on Linux using the 'gcc' compiler. Google "C socket example" to find:

http://www.linuxhowtos.org/C_C++/socket.htm

Regards!

...JRF...

[Piotr Kirklewski]

SSH would be nice.
Thanks

[Steven Schweda]

> SSH would be nice.

I doubt that you know what you're asking,
but:

http://www.openssh.com/

> What type of connection. FTP, SFTP, SSH.
> The connection type matters.

Yes, and there are many more types than
these few.

Are you trying to write two programs which
talk to each other, or one program which
talks to an existing (standard) server? If
the latter, a program like wget might be an
example which is only moderately complex.

[Piotr Kirklewski]

My question though was more about how to start:

How do I create a socket + connect to a port on some server.

The program doesn't have to do anything besides that at this moment.

Regards

Peter

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

> My question though was more about how to start: How do I create a socket + connect to a port on some server.

And the link I cited above would begin to enlighten you. It is even Linux oriented --- another clause you used in this post.

Regards!

...JRF...

[ranganath ramachandra]

you can start with one of the many tutorials, available on the internet, for "unix network programming" or "socket programming". here is one such:

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

also richard w. stevens' books "advanced programming in the unix environment" and "unix network programming".