Transfering files using socket programming

[drrep]

Hi all,

Ok, I looked everywhere over the net and no examples are shown on how to transfer a file from say a server to a client or vice versa. They only show how to transfer a message which is useless to me.

I am writing this program in C++ in order to transfer any kind of file between the server and client. I am assuming it does involve the send and recv functions someway as also perhaps the fread and fwrite for reading and writing a file.

Any help?? Thanks...

-Billy

 

[viorel15]

Hello!

I'm not sure that I can help you, but you can try this!
If you are using the API object socket, you can send a string of bytes.You read the bytes from the file and the client recive them.If the file is very large, you can read the bytes and send them in multiple steps.
I am not aware of any fuctions similar to fread and fwrite to do this thing.
If you suced,let me know.

 

[mirr2001]

I do not really think, I can help you. But I could mention, that I have also tried to make such a file sharing program, but it does not work fully. It transfers all the data, but somewhere there are errors in it.
You could send me an e-mail for request, so you could get the source code, maybe as inspiration.
PS: I worked with Visual Studio.NET

 

[mirr2001]

I do not really think, I can help you. But I could mention, that I have also tried to make such a file sharing program, but it does not work fully. It transfers all the data, but somewhere there are errors in it.
You could send me an e-mail for request, so you could get the source code, maybe as inspiration.
PS: I worked with Visual Studio.NET

(mirr2001@web.de)