Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming -- Table of Contents -- Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Boost.Asio -- What is Boost.Asio? -- History -- Dependencies -- Building Boost.Asio -- Important macros -- Synchronous versus asynchronous -- Exceptions versus error codes -- Threading in Boost.Asio -- Not just networking -- Timers -- The io_service class -- Summary -- 2. Boost.Asio Fundamentals -- The Network API -- Boost.Asio namespaces -- IP addresses -- Endpoints -- Sockets -- Synchronous error codes -- Socket member functions -- Connecting-related functions -- Read/write functions -- Socket control -- TCP versus UDP versus ICMP -- Miscellaneous functions -- Other considerations -- Socket buffers -- The buffer function wrapper -- The read/write/connect free functions -- The connect functions -- The read/write functions -- The read_until/async_read_until functions -- The *_at functions -- Asynchronous programming -- The need for going asynchronous -- Asynchronous run(), run_one(), poll(), poll_one() -- Running forever -- The run_one(), poll(), poll_one() functions -- Asynchronous work -- Asynchronous post() versus dispatch() versus wrap() -- Staying alive -- Summary -- 3. Echo Server/Clients -- TCP Echo server/clients -- TCP synchronous client -- TCP synchronous server -- TCP asynchronous client -- TCP asynchronous server -- The code -- UDP Echo server/clients -- UDP synchronous Echo client -- UDP synchronous Echo server -- Summary.

4. Client and Server -- The synchronous client/server -- Synchronous client -- Synchronous server -- The asynchronous client/server -- Asynchronous client -- Asynchronous server -- Summary -- 5. Synchronous Versus Asynchronous -- Mixing synchronous and asynchronous programming -- Passing client to server messages and vice versa -- Synchronous I/O in client applications -- Synchronous I/O in server applications -- Threading in a synchronous server -- Asynchronous I/O in client applications -- Asynchronous I/O in server applications -- Threading in an asynchronous server -- Asynchronous operations -- Implementing proxies -- Summary -- 6. Boost.Asio - Other Features -- std streams and std buffer I/O -- Boost.Asio and the STL streams -- The streambuf class -- The free functions that deal with streambuf objects -- Co-routines -- Summary -- 7. Boost.Asio - Advanced Topics -- Asio versus Boost.Asio -- Debugging -- Handler tracking information -- An example -- Handler tracking to file -- SSL -- Boost.Asio Windows features -- Stream Handles -- Random access Handles -- Object Handles -- Boost.Asio POSIX features -- Local sockets -- Connecting local sockets -- POSIX file descriptors -- Fork -- Summary -- Index.