You are facing a connection breakdown. Does this happen in 3G, WiFi or “plain” connection on a computer? Anyway, you must assume that the connection may be lost from time to time, when writing your app. For example, with mobiles, this happens frequently in the tube, in basements, etc. With PC apps, this is less … Read more
This exception can also be raised when dealing with arrays and forgetting keyword new. (Happened in my case) Array Syntax(C#)
It’s basically just assigning an address to it so you can accept incoming connections on that address. Have a look at: man bind
Here I’m attempting to answer some of your specific, factual questions to which I have something to contribute. Yes, you can use any C socket library in C++. If it doesn’t work out-of-the-box because the linker reports an undefined reference for the library functions you want to use, then can fix it by editing the .h file(s) of the … Read more
To understand sockets and use them right, you need The Sockets Bible: W. Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition) You absolutely must have this book before you sit down to write a line of sockets code. Don’t leave home without it. Really. Starting around $35 used at Amazon. EDIT: The OP asked about … Read more
You can find a working client-server program here: Beej’s Guide to Network Programming
An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine That is a boiler-plate error message, it comes out of Windows. The underlying error code is WSAECONNABORTED. Which really doesn’t mean more than “connection was aborted”. You have to be a bit careful about the “your host machine” part of the phrase. In … Read more