// Run like this: simple_client address port // Results in argv ["./simple_client", "address", "port"] #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char ** argv){ if(argc < 3){ printf("Usage: %s hostname port\n", argv[0]); return 1; } struct sockaddr_in sad; sad.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[2])); sad.sin_family = AF_INET; int skt = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); // do a dns lookup struct hostent* entry = gethostbyname(argv[1]); if(!entry){ if(h_errno == HOST_NOT_FOUND){ printf("This is our own message that says the host wasn't found\n"); } herror("gethostbyname"); return 1; } struct in_addr **addr_list = (struct in_addr**)entry->h_addr_list; struct in_addr* c_addr = addr_list[0]; char* ip_string = inet_ntoa(*c_addr); sad.sin_addr = *c_addr; // copy the address we found into sad // Finally done with DNS! printf("Connecting to: %s\n", ip_string); if( connect(skt, (struct sockaddr*)&sad, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) ){ perror("connect"); return 1; } char message[128]; uint16_t messagelen; if(2 != read(skt, &messagelen, 2)){ printf("We have some kind of problem\n"); return 1; } uint16_t expected_total = messagelen + sizeof(int) + sizeof(double); /* This way works, but there is an easier way ssize_t actual_length = read(skt, message, 128); while(actual_length < expected_total) actual_length += read(skt, message + actual_length, 128 - actual_length); */ /* This works, but what a mess! ssize_t actual_length = recv(skt, message, expected_total, MSG_WAITALL); printf("Received message(%ld bytes): %s\n", actual_length, message); printf("moosenum = %d\n", *(int*)(message + messagelen)); printf("mooseweight = %lf\n", *(double*)(message + messagelen + sizeof(int))); */ // One way: Meter everything on the way out if(127 > messagelen) { recv(skt, message, messagelen, MSG_WAITALL); message[messagelen] = 0; printf("The message: %s\n", message); } else { printf("Oh no, we don't have enough space to read the message!\n"); } /* int32_t moosenum; recv(skt, &moosenum, 4, MSG_WAITALL); printf("moosenum = %d\n", moosenum); double mooseweight; recv(skt, &mooseweight, 8, MSG_WAITALL); printf("mooseweight = %lf\n", mooseweight); */ // One more way, to reduce recv calls struct moosedata { int32_t moosenum; double mooseweight; }__attribute__((packed)); struct moosedata md; printf("sizeof(struct moosedata) = %lu\n", sizeof(struct moosedata)); recv(skt, &md, sizeof(md), MSG_WAITALL); printf("moosenum = %d\n", md.moosenum); printf("mooseweight = %lf\n", md.mooseweight); close(skt); return 0; }