NETWORK

PROGRAMMING

MUHAMMAD FARHAT
ABDUL HAKEEM
MOHAMED ANAAS
 INTRODUCTION
• In computing, network programming
essentially identical to socket programming or
client-server programming, involves writing
computer programs that communicate with other
programs across a computer network.
• The program or process initiating the
communication is called a client process, and
the program waiting for the communication to be
initiated is the server process. The client and
server processes together form a distributed
system.
• The communication between the client
and server process may either be
connection-oriented (such as an
established TCP virtual circuit or session),
or connectionless (based on UDP
datagrams).
• A program that can act both as a client
and a server is based on peer-to-per
communication.
 PROGRAMMING ON LINUX
• Like most other Unix-based operating
systems, Linux supports TCP/IP as its
native network transport. In this series, we
will assume you are fairly familiar with C
programming on Linux and with Linux
topics such as signals, forking, etc.
• This article is a basic introduction to using
the BSD socket interface for creating
networked applications. In the next article,
we will deal with issues involved in
creating (network) daemon processes.
Future articles will cover using remote
procedure calls and developing with
CORBA/distributed objects.
 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO
TCP/IP
• The TCP/IP suite of protocols allows two
applications, running on either the same or
separate computers connected by a
network, to communicate.
• It was specifically designed to tolerate an
unreliable network. TCP/IP allows two
basic modes of operation—connection-
oriented, reliable transmission and
connectionless, unreliable transmission
(TCP and UDP respectively).
 NETWORK PROGRAMMING
WITH PERL
• Network Programming with Perl is a
comprehensive, example-rich guide to creating
network-based applications using the Perl
programming language.
• Among its many capabilities, modern Perl
provides a straightforward and powerful interface
to TCP/IP, and this book shows how to leverage
these capabilities to create robust, maintainable,
and efficient custom client/server applications.
• The book quickly moves beyond the
basics to focus on high-level, application
programming concepts, tools, and
techniques.
• Students will find a review of basic
networking concepts and Perl
fundamentals, including Perl's I/O
functions, process model, and object-
oriented extensions.
• In addition, the book examines a collection
of the best third-party modules in the
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network,
including existing network protocols for
e-mail, news, and the Web.
 MICROSOFT.NET FRAMEWORK
• The Microsoft .NET Framework provides a
layered, extensible, and managed
implementation of Internet services that can be
quickly and easily integrated into your
applications.
• Your applications can build on pluggable
protocols to automatically take advantage of new
Internet protocols, or they can use a managed
implementation of the Windows socket interface
to work with the network on the socket level.