Re: Reviewing my first file transfer using Asio

From: Farbod Ahmadian (farbodahmadian2014_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-06-01 18:19:44

Thanks for your reply,
Well I'm testing it on my Linux (A Fedora 34 ;)) and for now, Windows is
not the case.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:04 PM Richard Hodges via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Happy to have a look.
>
> Is this intended for use on Windows, Linux or both?
>
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 at 15:35, Farbod Ahmadian via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I was learning Boost.Asio recently and to learn by doing a project, I
> > decided to write a simple file transfer. So I wrote an *Async TCP Server*
> > and a *Sync TCP Client; *you can use a client to send any kind of file to
> > the server. This is how it works:
> > 1) Clients connect to the server.
> > 2) Clients send the file name to the server.
> > 3) If everything is okay, the server will return an "OK" to that client
> and
> > wait for that client to send the file.
> > 4) If the client received "OK", it'll send the file.
> > 5) If everything goes well, the file is received by server and the
> > connection will be closed.
> > I will attach the source codes in this email.
> > So here are my questions:
> >
> > 1) Would you mind please review my code and say the problems? I'm a
> newbie
> > in Asio ;)
> >
> > 2) How to make my client and server talk with a special protocol? Let's
> say
> > HTTP. (If a socket server understands HTTP, will it be a web server?
> > something like Nginx and Apache.)
> >
> > 3) What is the next step? How can I improve this? What should I learn/do
> > next? Anything is kindly appreciated :)
> >
> > With best regards,
> > Farbod
> >
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