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C Socket File Transfer Program

The client requests a file from the server. If the file exists, the server opens it, reads the contents and sends it to the client. The client receives the file contents and displays it on the console. The program implements this using sockets in C: The server creates a socket, binds and listens for connections. When the client connects, the server receives the filename, opens the file, reads the contents and sends it to the client. The client creates a socket, connects to the server, sends the filename, receives the file contents and writes it to the console before closing the connection.

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C Socket File Transfer Program

The client requests a file from the server. If the file exists, the server opens it, reads the contents and sends it to the client. The client receives the file contents and displays it on the console. The program implements this using sockets in C: The server creates a socket, binds and listens for connections. When the client connects, the server receives the filename, opens the file, reads the contents and sends it to the client. The client creates a socket, connects to the server, sends the filename, receives the file contents and writes it to the console before closing the connection.

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Lab Experiment:

Write a Program in C using sockets depicting the following scenario:

The client requests for a file. The server opens the file, if it exists and transfers the contents of the file to
the client. The client displays the contents of the file received on the console.

Flow:-

Client Server

Create_socket
Create_socket

Bind_socket

Listen

Connect_socket

Accept connection

Take filename from user send(Filename)

Recv(Filename)

OpenFile(Filename)

Send(contentsOfFile) ReadFile

Recv(contentsOfFile)

Close_socket

DisplayOnConsole(contentsOfFile)

Close_socket
PROCEDURE:

Header files to be included:


#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

/*server.c*/
1. Create a socket
int sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sockfd < 0) printf("ERROR opening socket");
else printf(“Socket was created\n”);
2. Bind the socket to an address
Struct sockaddr_in addr;
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
addr.sin_port = htons(15000);
bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) & addr, sizeof(addr);
3. Listen for connections
listen(sockfd,5);
4. Accept a connection
int addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)
int newsockfd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) & addr,&addrlen);
5. Send and receive data
recv(newsockfd, fname,255,0)
/* open the file */
int fd= open(fname, O_RDONLY)
/* read and send the contents of the file */
int cont,bufsize=1024; char * buffer = malloc(bufsize);
while((cont = read(fd,buffer,bufsize)) >0)
send(newsockfd,buffer,cont,0);
6 /* close the connection */
Close(sockfd);
Close(newsockfd);

/* client.c */
1. Create a socket
int sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sockfd < 0) printf("ERROR opening socket");
2. Connect the socket to the address of the server
Struct sockaddr_in addr;
addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_port = htons(15000);
inet_pton(AF_INET,argv[1],&addr.sin_addr);

connect(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));


3. Send and receive data
send(sockfd, fname, sizeof(fname),0);
/* receive the file contents from server and write to console */
while((cont = recv(sockfd, buffer, bufsize,0)) > 0)
write(1, buffer,cont);

4. /* close the connection */


Close(sockfd);

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