/* Rambling comments... */: Socket Server code

October 27, 2006

Socket Server code - addressing bug fix

There's a bug in one of the constructors for CSocket::InternetAddress which means that changing the example servers to use a specific network adapter's address, rather than INADDR_ANY will generate an exception from the call to bind which says that the address is invalid.

The code currently reads like this:

CSocket::InternetAddress::InternetAddress(
   const unsigned long address,
   const unsigned short port)
{
   sin_family = AF_INET;
   sin_port = htons(port);
   sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(address);
}

and it should read like this:

CSocket::InternetAddress::InternetAddress(
   const unsigned long address,
   const unsigned short port)
{
   sin_family = AF_INET;
   sin_port = htons(port);
   sin_addr.s_addr = address;
}

This bug only affects the code that's freely available on my blog (here) and doesn't affect the licensed version.

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