Windows Sockets Network Programming

What is Windows Sockets?
What is its History?
What Are its Benefits?
What is its Future?
Conclusion.

The OSI Network Model.
The WinSock Network Model.
OSI Layers in WinSock.
Modular Boxes.
Services and Protocols.
Protocols and APIs.

What is TCP/IP?
What is its History?
Transport Services.
Network Services.
Support Protocols and Services.
What is its Future?

Client-Server Model.
Network Program Sketch.
Open a Socket.
Name the Socket.
Associate with Another Socket.
Send and Receive between Sockets.
Close the Socket.
Client and Server Sketches.

What Are Operation Modes?
Blocking Mode.
Nonblocking Mode.
Asynchronous Mode.
Performance Differences.
Platform Differences.
Blocking is Real.

What Are the Socket States?
What Are the Methods of Detection?
WSAAsyncSelect ().
Select ().
Peeking at Data.
Out-of-Band Data.
The Listening State.

Sample FTP Client.
Sample Library.
WinSockx.h.

Hostname and Address Resolution.
Host Table, DNS, and NIS.
Local Host Information.
Addresses and Formatting.
Protocol and Address Families.

Socket Control.
Socket Options.
Blocking Hooks.
Socket Names.

Startup and Cleanup.
Byte Ordering.
Service Names and Ports.
Protocol Names and Numbers.
Error Reporting.

Creating a New API.
DLL Issues.
Sample DLL.

Differences to Consider.
Sixteen-bit Windows Considerations.
Incidentals.
Functions List.

Problem Types.
What Failed, and How Did It Fail?
Problem Qualification.
Installation Debugging.
Network Debugging.
Application Debugging.
Debugging Tools.

Characterizing Your Application.
Application Data Flow.
Stream Algorithms.
Datagram Algorithms.
Good-News Code.
Common Traps and Pitfalls.

The WOSA Network Model.
Thirty-two-bit WinSock.
Other Platforms.

Optional Standard is an Oxymoron.
Should You Use Optional Features?
Raw Sockets.
Multicast.
Loopback.
Sharing Sockets.
Optional Options.
Sockets as File Handles.
Expect Any Error Anywhere.
Other Optional Features.

Do You Need WinSock 2?
Overview of Features.
Multiple Protocol Support.
Overlapped I/O.
Scatter and Gather.
Quality of Service.
Socket Groups.
Multipoint and Multicast.
Conditional Acceptance.
Connect and Disconnect Data.
Socket Sharing.
Protocol-Specific Additions.

Layering within TCP/IP Packets.
ARP Header.
IP Header.
ICMP Header.
IGMP Header.
TCP Header.
UDP Header.
Sample Dialogs.

Structures.
Functions.
Macros.

Where to Get Error Values.
What Errors to Expect.
User-fixable Errors.
Detailed Error Descriptions.
Errors in Numerical Order.

Essential Files.
Compile and Link Mechanics.
Using Different WinSocks.
Using Different Languages.

Internet Sources.
Bibliography.