Don G wrote:

I was curious if others have discussed this before. I searched and found nothing on "socket" or "network".

Yes, everyone is interested in a sockets library ;-) There are several works in progress. A number of them are in the Yahoo files section. The furthest along, I think, is Hugo Duncan's Giallo project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/giallo/ There's also some discussion on the Wiki: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostSocket

Best, Don

Jonathan