Re: connect() returns 22

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 13:04:29 GMT

Senthilraja <senthil.raja@adcc.alcatel.be> writes:

> bzero(server_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
> server_addr->sin_family = AF_INET;
> server_addr->sin_port = htons(80);
> server_addr->sin_addr.s_addr = 1117850705; //the IP address of
>dictionary.reference.com

You would need to use "htonl(1117850705)".

> // Connect to the server

> addrlen = sizeof (server_addr);

This is wrong; should be "sizeof *server_addr".

> returncode = connect(server_socket,
> (struct sockaddr *) &server_addr,

This is incorrect; server_addr is a struct sockaddr_in *.

Seems like you're mixing example; what people usually do is:

        struct sockaddr_in server_addr;

(no malloc) and then that code is OK.

Casper 

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