所谓服务器监听,是服务器端套接字并不定位具体地客户端.doc

所谓服务器监听，是服务器端套接字并不定位具体的客户端套接字，而是处于等待连接的状态，实时监控网络状态。 　　所谓客户端请求，是指由客户端的套接字提出连接请求，要连接的目标是服务器端的套接字。为此，客户端的套接字必须首先描述它要连接的服务器的套接字，指出服务器端套接字的地址和端口号，然后就向服务器端套接字提出连接请求。 　　所谓连接确认，是指当服务器端套接字监听到或者说接收到客户端套接字的连接请求，它就响应客户端套接字的请求，建立一个新的线程，把服务器端套接字的描述发给客户端，一旦客户端确认了此描述，连接就建立好了。而服务器端套接字继续处于监听状态，继续接收其他客户端套接字的连接请求。 Network programming in windows is possible with sockets. A socket is like a handle to a file. Socket programming resembles the file IO as does the Serial Communication. You can use sockets programming to have two applications communicate with each other. The application are typically on the different computers but they can be on same computer. For the two applications to talk to each either on the same or different computers using sockets one application is generally a server that keeps listening to the incoming requests and the other application acts as a client and makes the connection to the server application. The server application can either accept or reject the connection. If the? server accepts the connection, a dialog can begin with between the client and the server.? Once the client is done with whatever it needs to do it can close the connection with the server. Connections are expensive in the sense that servers allow finite connections to occur.? During the time client has an active connection it can send the data to the server and/or receive the data. The complexity begins here. When either side (client or server) sends data the other side is supposed to read the data. But how will the other side know when data has arrived. There are two options - either the application needs to poll for the data at regular intervals or there needs to be some sort of mechanism that would enable application to get notifications and application can read the data at that time. Well , after all Windows is an event driven system and the notification system seems an obvious and best choice and it in fact is.? As I said the two applications that need to communicate with each othe