Hello....i am trying to send a file from server to the client using socket programming in C, how do i do this?? basically the client is trying to download a file from the server....
ooops.789 0 Newbie Poster
L7Sqr 227 Practically a Master Poster
There are several online networking tutorials online (Beej is a good google term) - I'll assume that you have read these and will ask direct questions on points you do not understand.
The answer to your question, then, is that you
- open socket, listen and accept the client connection
- read from the client what file to serve
- open the file on the server
- read the file chunk by chunk
- each chunk read from file should be written to the socket
- close file
- close socket
ooops.789 0 Newbie Poster
i understood the procedure to do it, but i am new to socket programming so i am looking for some code that helps me in transferring files....
L7Sqr 227 Practically a Master Poster
The examples on that site direct you how to send information over a network connection. To send a file, just open your file, read from it and write what was read to the network socket.
Specifically, look at this part and instead of the char * used in that code substitute the data from your file.
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