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Hands-On Network Programming with C

You're reading from Hands-On Network Programming with C Learn socket programming in C and write secure and optimized network code

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789349863

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Lewis Van Winkle

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Introducing Networks and Protocols FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting to Grips with Socket APIs

3. An In-Depth Overview of TCP Connections

4. Establishing UDP Connections

5. Hostname Resolution and DNS

6. Building a Simple Web Client

7. Building a Simple Web Server

8. Making Your Program Send Email

9. Loading Secure Web Pages with HTTPS and OpenSSL

10. Implementing a Secure Web Server

11. Establishing SSH Connections with libssh

12. Network Monitoring and Security

13. Socket Programming Tips and Pitfalls

14. Web Programming for the Internet of Things

1. Answers to Questions

2. Setting Up Your C Compiler on Windows

3. Setting Up Your C Compiler on Linux

4. Setting Up Your C Compiler on macOS

5. Example Programs

6. Other Book You May Enjoy

Questions

Try these questions to test the knowledge you have acquired from this chapter:

How does a client decide whether it should trust a server's certificate?
What is the main issue with self-signed certificates?
What can cause SSL_accept() to fail?
Can select() be used to multiplex connections for HTTPS servers?

The answers to these questions can be found in Appendix A, Answers to Questions.

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Authors (1)

Lewis Van Winkle

Lewis Van Winkle

Lewis Van Winkle is a software programming consultant, entrepreneur, and founder of a successful IoT company. He has over 20 years of programming experience after publishing his first successful software product at age 12. He has over 15 years of programming experience with the C programming language on a variety of operating systems and platforms. He is active in the open-source community and has published several popular open-source programs and librariesmany of them in C. Today, Lewis spends much of his time consulting, where he loves taking on difficult projects that other programmers have given up on. He specializes in network systems, financial systems, machine learning, and interoperation between different programming languages.

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