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Hi!
Using the winsock functions I am trying to make a chat program...
I have a server program and a client program but my server can only handle one client at a time! (I have blocking mode connection)
How can I handle multiple clients?
Thank you very much for your future answers!
Well... I am a beginner ...
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There are several solutions. In theory and in practice, supporting multiple sockets using blocking I/O is quite unusual. In general, one solution is to keep track of all clients using a map.
I recommend an OVERLAPPED I/O model or IOCP.
Kuphryn
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Hi, all:
I have a weird problem and need your help. I have a main app and DLL. In the main app I have my object pointer (CMyObj* pObj) that has method like:
HRESULT TranslateIDToName( long lID, LPSTR cBuff, UNIT dwBuffSize );
this TranslateIDToName then calls some methods in DLL.
In main, I have something like this:
const DWORD dwBuffSize = 128;
TCHAR cBuff[dwBuffSize];
pObj->TranslateIDToName( lID, cBuff, dwBuffSize );
When I compile both main app and DLL in RELEASE, (both uses Multithreaded DLL as Runtime DLL ). It works fine! However, if I compile both in Debug ( both uses Debug Multithreaded DLL ), I step through the code, The TranslateIDToName() fills up the cBuff correctly and then return from the function.
The problem comes when the function returns to the caller:
pObj->TranslateIDToName( lID, cBuff, dwBuffSize );
The pObj is trashed with either garbage in the pObj or pObj = NULL. In either case, the pObj address changes before calling the method and right after return from the method ( the Stack really messed up!!). Of course, the app crashes!
I tried all the stuff I can think of, and no more ideas about what could be wrong.
Any suggestion and help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Dion
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What goes on inside of TranslateIDToName()?
Kuphryn
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I got the problem fixed. the problem is the array index out of range inside the function. thanks anyway.
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Recently I've spotted the download manager "Hidownload" (www.hidownload.com),
and I'm wondering how they're analyzing the web-traffic.
They're catching url's to streamed RealMedia files, WMV files etc.
Now I know how to get download URL's from IE etc.,
but they seem to be doing it on a very low level.
(You have to specify which network-card you want to monitor.)
Does anyone have a clue how to do this ?
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Some of the packet sniffer programs do the same thing....
First thing they do, is put your NIC into a "promiscuous" mode. This mode allows your computer to see all packets that pass by it, not just the ones that are destined for that machine.
This also assumes that the "watching" computer is on the same segment of LAN (same part of the network switch) that the "watched" machines are on.
I don't know how to accomplish this, but I do know that this is NOT SUPPORTED ON ALL ethernet adapters.
-p
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Peter Weyzen<br />
Staff Engineer<br />
<A HREF="http://www.santacruznetworks.com">Santa Cruz Networks</A>
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Uhh... ok 
I don't think it's needed to see all packets that pass by though,
after all all you want is to know what files are accessed by what protocol.
No need to spy on other datatraffic, right..?
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Uhhh...
how are you gonna figure out what higher-level-protocols are in use? except to watch all packets that go by, and analyze those....
Your ethernet card knows nothing about actual protocols. It only knows how to accept or deny ethernet packets.
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Peter Weyzen<br />
Staff Engineer<br />
<A HREF="http://www.santacruznetworks.com">Santa Cruz Networks</A>
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I should add that I misread a bit.
They are sitting on the network card, and analyzing all data that comes to it. They don't need promiscuous mode, unless you want to see traffic generated on other machines too.
But the premise is the same, they are just watching the traffic coming over the card, and it's pretty easy to catch all of that that stuff at that point.
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Peter Weyzen<br />
Staff Engineer<br />
<A HREF="http://www.santacruznetworks.com">Santa Cruz Networks</A>
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Would you know of any source / info that could show me how to do this ?
(Get the lowlevel-packet-data ?)
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Hi,
Try Winpcap for windows (Packet Capture Library) or pcap with unix machines.
WinPCap is a free download.
Satya
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I am converting a dos app to a windows app. The application changes passwords for given a given user. The dos application accepts servername, username, and password as cmd line arg's. They are defined as char username[50], password[128], etc.
My dialog takes the username and password as CString's.
How can I convert the CString to make it compatible with the char [50], etc above?
Thanks!
"Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
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To make a CString from char[]:
char username[50];
CString str;
str = username;
To make a char[] from CString:
CString str;
char username[50];
memset(username, 0, 50);
strncpy(username, str.LockBuffer(), 50-1);
str.UnlockBuffer();
Hope that helps 
Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do?? 
(doesn't work on NT)
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The calls to LockBuffer() and UnlockBuffer() are not necessary as the second parameter to strncpy() is expecting a LPCSTR, which CString provides. The same is true for GetBuffer() and ReleaseBuffer().
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Thanks! That worked great.
Frank
"Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
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i'm writting an application using c# that needs to communicate with the parallel port efficiently.
since win32 API are not fast enough, i wrote a win32 dll in c++ which uses assembly instructions to communicate with the port.
to read values from the port, i have a dll export which just returns the current value read from the port.
doing these read operation many times through dllImport is not efficient. so i need a way to return multiple values from the dll export.
i'm not sure whether it is possible to communicate with parallel port directly from c#.
please help me.
thanks.
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I would ask this question in the CodeProject C# forum.
Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
(doesn't work on NT)
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Hi,
Can someone tell me how to implement a UDP client. I already did a TCP client (it works fine), and read some of the MSDN on some differences. Is the only difference that I use SOCK_DGRAM instead of SOCK_STREAM ? Where can I find a list of the protocols address family (af) for the function socket?
Can some tell me where to find a detailed article or some sample code.
Thanks.
Jimmy
Just cause I am 15, doesn't mean I'm dumb! (I'll really be 4 on Feb. 29...the year 2004)
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Well, during the creation you just pass the SOCKET_DGRAM instead of SOCKET_STREAM.
Then you might 'bind' it to the local port (selecting the client side port number - unusual in tcp). If you don't do it it will choose the port automatically as in tcp, but most udp protocol expects also known client port, so usually you have to do it.
Then the usage is slightly different - on write side whatever you write it will send a packet immediatelly (no nagle alg. as in tcp) therefore if you write every byte separately, there will be separate packet for every byte (thus big overhead). You also have to specify the destination address - this is in tcp taken from the 'connect', but there's no connect, because it's connectionless socket .
Reading part - here you can use the recvfrom or WSARecvFrom functions which returns also the address from where the datagram was sent and you can process it.
That's the difference between udp and tcp - in udp you can communicate with several computers using one socket. Therefore you have to specify the address in write and receive it in read.
Another issue with udp is that it's not reliable - it's only best effort service, so during design of the protocol you have to think about the fact, that the packets (data) can be lost - this is normally controlled by tcp and in that case the data are resend, but it's not valid in udp, here it's up to you.
That's just brief description of udp-tcp differences. I hope it's not too much confusing
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Hi. This my first post here, so be gentle
I'm creating a level editor, in the vein of id Software's q3radiant, and I've hit a snag. I've been developing it for about 3 months, using MFC/C/C++, and haven't had the need to save any of the maps I've been making. Now I'm coming to the part where I have to be able to save and load my maps to progress. "All well and good," I thought. "I'm using the document/view architecture, it shouldn't be too much trouble." I was wrong, apparently.
I've created some window classes to provide the 2D and 3D functionality I need (they use OpenGL for rendering), and then used a couple of static CSplitterWnds to make the windows. This has worked perfectly up to now. There is a texture window (CTexWnd : CWnd) on the right, and then a nested CSplitterWnd on the right with three 2D windows (C2DWnd : CWnd) and a perspective window (C3DWnd : CWnd). I haven't used the view or document created by the app wizard (CMyEditorView and CMyEditorDoc, respectively), as the need hasn't arisen until now.
I've come to save my maps, but the Save and Save As menu items are greyed. The resource IDs (ID_FILE_SAVE and ID_FILE_SAVE_AS) are correct, but they're still unusable. I created a small test program, and dug around in MFC until I found out the problem: I wasn't creating a CMyEditorView, and therefore, the messages weren't being routed to my CMyEditorDoc. I created a CMyEditorView in place of one of 2D windows, and, lo and behold, the Save and Save As buttons were available. However, now I'm confused. How do I link the document to all of the windows, or none of them? How do I link it so that the document can be used to store my map, and save/load it? I have to keep using C2DWnd instead of CMyEditorView, but it would seem that's not an option. Is there any way I can get out of this sticky problem, and save/load my maps using the document? I think there's other modelling software which uses the SDI environment and splitter windows, but still uses the document/view architecture. Thanks in advance for any replies, and thanks for reading this rather large post, but I thought I'd probably better get in as much detail in possible
PS. I can post code and/or screenshots, if it's relevant...
Chris Mantle
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Jeez, if you guys can't help me, I must be in trouble. Ah well, back to the drawing board...
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I hjave a need to detect one of the following 3 states for a CD writer drive.
1. No media in the drive
2. Unformatted / Blank media in the drive
3. Media with a valid CDFS on it in the drive.
So far all of the IOCTL calls I have explored give me the same results from an empty drive as they do from one containing blank or unformatted media.
Any help gratefully received.
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You should be able to extrapolate from this:
bool IsMediaPresent( void )
{
MCI_OPEN_PARMS mciOpen = {0};
MCI_STATUS_PARMS mciStatus = {0};
MCIERROR mciError;
mciOpen.lpstrDeviceType = "cdaudio";
mciError = mciSendCommand(NULL, MCI_OPEN, MCI_OPEN_TYPE, (DWORD) ((LPVOID) &mciOpen));
if (0 == mciError)
{
mciStatus.dwItem = MCI_STATUS_MEDIA_PRESENT;
mciError = mciSendCommand(mciOpen.wDeviceID, MCI_STATUS, MCI_STATUS_ITEM, (DWORD) ((LPVOID) &mciStatus));
mciError = mciSendCommand(mciOpen.wDeviceID, MCI_CLOSE, 0, NULL);
}
return (1 == mciStatus.dwReturn);
}
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First of all many thanks for taking the time to provide an answer , it is much appreciated. The code fragment works in detecting an empty drive or a drive containing a formatted CD, however it returns exactly the same responses for a drive containing a blank unformatted CD as it does for an empty drive. This is the same problem I have experienced using the CD IOCTL calls from the DDK, they all tend to return 21 (device not ready). The application I am trying to write is a service that will kick off a third party app to write a CD overnight if there is valid media in the drive. I don't want to kick it off if there isn't because the app will sit there with a non displaying dialog waiting for a response.
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