"Bronek Kozicki" <brok@rubikon.pl> wrote in message news:413B45F2.60303@rubikon.pl...
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Sorry for jumping with this question out of nowhere : is it possible to use Iostreams to provide stream-like access to sockets, ie. make platform-independent abstraction over platform-dependent sockets library?
Yes. I have done this. I wanted to included an example, but there would have been too much extra code to include.
maybe you should publish this example anyway?
My example used a bare-bones windows and linux socket-wrapping library by Jasen Plietz. I wrote to hime to see if I could use it, but never heard from him. Looking in the sandbox and files sections instead, there were so many socket libraries that I was a bit overwhelmed. I didn't want to use Hugo Duncan's work, since his library appears quite large. I'm trying to avoid using the low-level windows and posix socket functions, since that is not my expertise.
Please see 'Planned Changes'-->Item 4 (http://tinyurl.com/6rtkz) and
'Fututer
Directions' (http://tinyurl.com/6r8p2).
I WILL take a look
Thanks. Jonathan