*another* basic Winsock Problem.

[Sebastiani]

Hi, all. Now that I have the client functioning, I would like to complete the server. The problem I am having now is with bind()ing the listening socket. Here is the code I am using:

bool bind(SOCKET sock, unsigned long address, unsigned short port = 80)
{
 sockaddr_in local;
 memset(&local, 0, sizeof(sockaddr_in));
 local.sin_family = AF_INET;
 local.sin_port = port;//...also tried htons(port)...
 local.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr = address;
 return ::bind(sock, (sockaddr*)&remote, sizeof(remote)) != SOCKET_ERROR;
}

The two addresses I tried as the second parameter were the manifest constants INADDR_ANY and INADDR_LOOPBACK (as well as htonl(INADDR_ANY) and htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK) ).

Any ideas?

 

[Sebastiani]

Sorry about the typos. Corrected it should read:

bool bind(SOCKET sock, unsigned long address, unsigned short port = 80)
{
 sockaddr_in local;
 memset(&local, 0, sizeof(sockaddr_in));
 local.sin_family = AF_INET;
 local.sin_port = port;//...also tried htons(port)...
 local.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr = address;
 return ::bind(sock, (sockaddr*)&local, sizeof(local)) != SOCKET_ERROR;
}

 

[Sebastiani]

O.K. Got it.

bool bind(SOCKET sock, unsigned long address, unsigned short port = 80)
{
 sockaddr_in local;
 memset(&local, 0, sizeof(local));
 local.sin_family = AF_INET;
 local.sin_port = htons(port);
 local.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr = htonl(address);
 return ::bind(sock, (sockaddr*)&local, sizeof(local)) != SOCKET_ERROR;
}