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Socket Programming Basics

Socket programming allows applications to communicate over networks. A socket represents an endpoint for communication and acts as an interface between applications and the network. There are two main types of sockets: SOCK_STREAM which provides reliable, connection-oriented transmission using TCP; and SOCK_DGRAM which provides unreliable datagram transmission using UDP. The socket creation process involves creating a socket, binding it to an address and port, sending/receiving data, and closing the socket. Key data structures like sockaddr store socket addresses and protocol information to allow communication between machines with different byte orders.

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Socket Programming Basics

Socket programming allows applications to communicate over networks. A socket represents an endpoint for communication and acts as an interface between applications and the network. There are two main types of sockets: SOCK_STREAM which provides reliable, connection-oriented transmission using TCP; and SOCK_DGRAM which provides unreliable datagram transmission using UDP. The socket creation process involves creating a socket, binding it to an address and port, sending/receiving data, and closing the socket. Key data structures like sockaddr store socket addresses and protocol information to allow communication between machines with different byte orders.

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Socket Programming

What is a socket?
Using sockets
Types

(Protocols)
Associated functions
Styles

What is a socket?
An interface between application and

network

The application creates a socket

Once configured the application can


pass data to the socket for network
transmission
receive data from the socket

Two essential types of sockets


SOCK_DGRAM

SOCK_STREAM

a.k.a. TCP
reliable delivery
in-order guaranteed
connection-oriented
Bidirectional
Bind(), listen(),accept()
and connect()

App
3 2
1

a.k.a. UDP
unreliable delivery
no order guarantees
Send or receive

D1

App
socket

Dest.

3 2
1

D2

socket

D3
3

Model of Socket
Step 1 : Create a socket
Step 2: connect the socket to the address

of the server

Step 3: send/receive the data


Step 4: close the socket

Model of Socket
Step 1 : Create a socket
Step 2: connect the socket to the address

of the server

Step 3: send/receive the data


Step 4: close the socket

The struct sockaddr


The generic:
struct sockaddr {
u_short sa_family;
char sa_data[14];
};

sa_family
specifies which
address family is
being used
determines how the
remaining 14 bytes
are used

The Internet-specific:
struct sockaddr_in {
short sin_family;
u_short sin_port;
struct in_addr sin_addr;
char sin_zero[8];
};
sin_family = AF_INET
sin_port: port # (0-65535)
sin_addr: IP-address
sin_zero: unused

Socket Creation in C: socket


int s = socket(domain, type, protocol);
s: socket descriptor, an integer (like a file-handle)
domain: integer, communication domain
e.g., PF_INET (IPv4 protocol) typically used

type: communication type

SOCK_STREAM: reliable, 2-way, connection-based


service
SOCK_DGRAM: unreliable, connectionless,
other values: need root permission, rarely used, or
obsolete

protocol: specifies protocol (see file /etc/protocols


for a list of options) - usually set to 0

A Socket-eye view of the


Internet
medellin.cs.columbia.edu
(128.59.21.14)
newworld.cs.umass.edu
(128.119.245.93)
cluster.cs.columbia.edu
(128.59.21.14, 128.59.16.7,
128.59.16.5, 128.59.16.4)

Each host machine has an IP address


When a packet arrives at a host
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TYPES OF ADDRESS STRUCTURES


Struct sockaddr
It holds the socket information

Struct in_addr

It holds 32 bit netid/hostid.

Struct sockaddr_in/IPv4 Socket Address

It holds the info about family, port number,


internet address and size of the struct

Struct hostent
Struct servent

Relevant info about host


and ports

Struct sockaddr_in6/IPv6 Socket Address


Struct sockaddr_storage

Its having large enough socket address type

Ports
Each host has 65,536

ports
Some ports are
reserved for specific
apps
20,21: FTP
23: Telnet
80: HTTP

Port 0
Port 1

Port 65535

A socket provides an interface

to send data to/from the


network through a port

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Address and port byte-ordering


Address and port are stored as

integers

u_short sin_port; (16 bit)


in_addr sin_addr; (32 bit)

struct in_addr {
u_long s_addr;
};

Problem:
different machines / OSs use different word orderings
little-endian: lower bytes first
big-endian: higher bytes first

these machines may communicate with one another over the


network

128.119.40.12
128

Big-Endian
machine

119

40

12

Little-Endian
machine

N
O

R119
W

128

!
!
!
G

40

12.40.119.128
12

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UNIXs byte-ordering funcs


u_long htonl(u_long x);

u_long ntohl(u_long x);

u_short htons(u_short x);

u_short ntohs(u_short x);

On big-endian machines, these routines do nothing


On little-endian machines, they reverse the byte

order

hto

128

119

40

12

Little-Endian12
machine
128

119

40

128.119.40.12
40
119 128
12

ntohl

nl

128
119 40
128.119.40.12

Big-Endian
12machine

Same code would have worked regardless of endian-

ness of the two machines

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Address conversion Function


Function converting

IPv4
Inet_aton
it converts address
to number
Inet_ntoa
network address to
number
Inet_addr
internet host
address to number

Function converting

IPv6
Inet_pton
It convert text to
binary
Inet_ntop
It converts IPv4
and IPv6 from
binary to text form
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