GNet Network Library Reference Manual

David Helder

<dhelder@umich.edu>

This manual documents GNet, a network library. It gives an overview of GNet, discusses examples that come with GNet, and includes detailed documentation of the GNet API.

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Table of Contents

GNet Overview

GNet for developers

Compiling programs with GNet
Tips and tricks
Hiding blocking

GNet Examples

echoclient and echoserver
dnslookup, hash, hfetch, hostinfo, and SDR

GNet Library Reference

GNet -- GNet utility functions and macros
InetAddr -- Internet Address
TCP -- TCP socket
UDP -- UDP socket
Mcast -- IP Multicast socket
Conn -- TCP connection object
Server -- TCP server object
IOChannel -- GIOChannel utility functions
URI -- Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
Base64 -- Base64 encoding and decoding
Pack -- Byte packing and unpacking functions
MD5 -- MD5 hash
SHA -- SHA hash
Unix -- Unix socket
IPv6 -- IPv6 policy functions
SOCKS -- SOCKS proxy