IRC Bot Sockets Help

[turdie]

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[MXP]

Beej's Guide to Network Programming describes how to set up and use sockets in a way which work on Windows and Linux. If you have specific errors or issues please describe them in more detail and we can work through those.

[turdie]

hi

[MXP]

Beej's guide has lots of sample code including several full programs.

[turdie]

hi

[MXP]

socket() creates the socket and connect() will allow you to connect to a specific IP and port, not unlike your Python example. Can you post your C++ code so we can see what is incorrect?

[turdie]

hi

[MXP]

Unlike in python, sock is not an object; sock is just a handle to the object and it must be passed as the first parameter to connect().

[MXP]

Please always post any errors you receive. It makes finding what the problem is easier.

The prototype for connect() is

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int connect(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *serv_addr, int addrlen);


You are passing a string in for the second parameter and a port number for the third parameter but this is not correct. The second parameter is a structure which has information about the address and port and the third parameter is the actual length of the address member of that structure. Generally you generate this structure using getaddrinfo() as you can see in this bit of example code.