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Hello, this is my first question on this website, hope I do good :)

so I'm new to c++ and started working on a project because I like to learn by doing, the project is made of two applications one client and one server and they communicate using sockets.

I want to write two functions to receive and send all data (big data, like files) from and to the socket.

I searched online for examples but couldn't find anything I understand, so I thought maybe I would ask for examples of the code online myself.

thanks

What I have tried:

I have tried different examples I found online, but couldn't get them to work together as they make my app hang. (also they seemed complicated)
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Updated 16-Jun-22 23:53pm

You could try ASIO[^]. It is somewhat difficult to grasp, at first. But there are many many working examples.
 
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There lots of examples online: C++ tcpip - Google Search[^]. However if you cannot understand any of them then you probably need to focus on studying C++ in greater detail.
 
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I don't have an exact solution for you because I have no idea what constraints you have to deal with. I can give you a tip though - use a little header structure to preface your data. It doesn't have to be very complex. I usually put the size of the data to be transmitted and a simple checksum that is easy to compute. I have done this many, many times and I find it makes things easier because you know exactly how much data to anticipate.

One of my applications runs multiple instances of itself and they all talk to each other and I built in a facility to allow it to send a copy of itself to another instance and to update itself there. It amounts to just another file transfer and then some dancing to shut down, copy, and restart itself but nothing terribly difficult. This transfer also uses a little header structure. Unfortunately, I haven't made that generic enough for easy reuse but I do that kind of thing every time I have to transfer any significant amount of data.
 
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