Socket Functions (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

This section discusses how the socket functions.

In This Section

• accept (Windows Sockets)
  Permits an incoming connection attempt on a socket

• bind (Windows Sockets)
  Associates a local address with a socket

• closesocket
  Closes an existing socket

• connect (Windows Sockets)
  This function establishes a connection to a specified socket

• freeaddrinfo
  Frees address information that the getaddrinfo function dynamically allocates in its addrinfo structures

• getaddrinfo
  Provides protocol-independent translation from host name to address

• gethostname
  This function returns the standard host name for the local machine

• getnameinfo
  Provides name resolution from an address to the host name.

• getpeername (Windows Sockets)
  Retrieves the name of the peer to which a socket is connected

• getsockname (Windows Sockets)
  Retrieves the local name for a socket

• getsockopt (Windows Sockets)
  Retrieves a socket option

• htonl
  Converts a u_long from host to TCP/IP network byte order, which is big-endian

• htons
  Converts a u_short from host to TCP/IP network byte order, which is big-endian

• inet_addr
  Converts a string containing an (Ipv4) Internet Protocol dotted address into a proper address for the in_addr structure

• inet_ntoa
  Converts an (Ipv4) Internet network address into a string in Internet standard dotted format

• ioctlsocket
  Controls the I/O mode of a socket

• listen
  Places a socket at a state where it is listening for an incoming connection

• ntohl
  Converts a u_long from TCP/IP network order to host byte order, which is little-endian on Intel processors

• ntohs
  Converts a u_short from TCP/IP network byte order to host byte order, which is little-endian on Intel processors

• recv
  Receives data from a connected socket

• recvfrom
  Receives a datagram and stores the source address

• select
  Determines the status of one or more sockets, waiting if necessary, to perform synchronous I/O

• send
  Sends data on a connected socket

• sendto
  Sends data to a specific destination

• sethostname
  Used to register the host name on a network with the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)

• setsockopt (Windows Sockets)
  Sets a socket option

• shutdown
  Disables sends or receives on a socket

• socket (Windows Sockets)
  Creates a socket that is bound to a specific service provider

• gethostbyaddr (deprecated)
  Retrieves the host information corresponding to a network address

  Note

  The gethostbyaddr function has been deprecated by the introduction of the getnameinfo function. Developers who create Windows Sockets 2 applications are urged to use the getnameinfo function instead of the gethostbyaddr function.

• gethostbyname (deprecated)
  Retrieves host information corresponding to a host name from a host database

  Note

  The gethostbyname function has been deprecated by the introduction of the getaddrinfo function. Developers who create Windows Sockets 2 applications are urged to use the getaddrinfo function instead of gethostbyname.

See Also

Reference

Winsock Functions