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Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version

   by Douglas E. Comer / David L. Stevens

  Hardcover:
    Prentice Hall
    30 April, 1997

   US$76.47 

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Editorial description(s):

From Book News, Inc.
Explains to programmers of application software how such software use the standard protocols to communicate over the Internet. This WINSOCK Version is for those who are building software for personal computers using Windows 95 or Windows NT, which support the Win32 programming interface and can use the Windows Sockets API discussed in the text. First discusses the client-server paradigm and socket interface that application programs use for network communication, then describes designs that emphasize practical principles and techniques. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Book Info
Covers the client/server paradigm and socket interface that application programs use for network communication. Discusses client and server designs that emphasize practical principles and techniques.

From the Back Cover
This volume answers the question "How does one use TCP/IP?"--focusing on the client-server paradigm, and examining algorithms for both the client and server components of a distributed program. It presents an implementation that illustrates each design and discusses techniques like application-level gateways and tunneling. The book also reviews several standard application protocols and uses them to illustrate the algorithms and implementation techniques.

Book Description


This volume answers the question "How does one use TCP/IP?"—focusing on the client-server paradigm, and examining algorithms for both the client and server components of a distributed program. KEY TOPICS: It presents an implementation that illustrates each design and discusses techniques like application-level gateways and tunneling. The book also reviews several standard application protocols and uses them to illustrate the algorithms and implementation techniques.






Reader review(s):

More about design than actual code, July 26, 2000
The book is much more about how to design a service than about TCP/IP. If you want detailed explanations about sockets, you will not find them here. But if you want different scenarios to design a service, this is the book for you. The code snippetes are trivial and poorly explained.

Great concepts, marginal examples, October 15, 1999
The book provides a good conceptual overview of how to do TCP/IP programming but some of the examples are flawed and don't work as the text specifies.

More than a how to book, distills principles of design., August 20, 1999
The first thing I read from this book, was surprising. It stated that "The unit of concurrency under Unix is the process" as opposed to threads with Windows. This seemed to me a great inaccuracy (not even acknowledging the existence of Posix threads) and I nearly stopped reading there. Which would have been a pity, as it sets forth in in a very readable style, design principles for building Networked applications.

good for beginners, February 3, 2004
If you're just a beginner, or you're moving to Winsock from Unix; then the book covers all you need.

But does not include the details of the Winsock (overlapped io, dealing with multiple providers (for different protocols), async io, etc). So I believe that the title should not include "windows sockets version"

Your Winsock book - by default - if you really need one!, August 2, 2002
I decided to write this note after a fourth person asked me about my favorite book for winsock programming.

The answer is, since winsock is built on BSD sockets, and what isn't in BSD sockets but is in winsock is mostly Windows operating system related, your best bet is still the MSDN reference material. That is, if you already have some background in TCP/IP from Unix platform. If not, and you insist on a winsock specific book, there are not that many choices I know of. So this is probably your best bet.

If you are a beginning TCP/IP programmer, this will help. Pretty readable and well organized. But most of the examples in the book are for the type of applications which have already been written and rewritten several times over in the world and you can always find those someplace on the web. I find myself going to back to Richard Stevens volumes and to the RFCs, online documentations at Microsoft and elsewhere. But then, that might be because I started my TCP/IP days from UNIX/SunOS/IRIX.

For beginning TCP/IP programming this can be a good book. There are some paragraphs here and there with sloppy editing - technical and otherwise - but within tolerable limits. And, that is why I did not give it five stars.

Great place to start and then some., April 30, 1999
I'm a computer science student and we used this book for our class. It does a very good job of explaning what you need to know, and provided examples that actually work. If there was one thing I didn't like about the book is that they use their own header files, so you have to include them in with your projects, but a few of us, just took their all their C files and compiled them into one big header file, and it works great. Most book do this kind of thing so it wasn't any shock. I would recommend this book to anyone with a good C background, obviously you need to know C before trying to write the code, but you don't need to be advanced by any means.
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