Section 2 - Issues for New Winsock Programmers

2.1 - Are there any sample apps on the Net?
2.2 - How do I speak { HTTP, POP3, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, NNTP, etc. } with Winsock?
2.3 - How do I get my IP address from within a Winsock program?
2.4 - What kind of socket should I use?
2.5 - Do I need to initialize the WSAData structure before calling WSAStartup?
2.6 - If I write a Winsock program, will I be able to communicate with a Unix sockets program?
2.7 - Can I use Winsock with { Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual Cobol, etc. }?
2.8 - How do I detect when my TCP connection is closed?
2.9 - Are there any tools available for debugging Winsock programs?
2.10 - How do I get a readable error message from a Winsock error number?
2.11 - Winsock keeps returning the error WSAEWOULDBLOCK. What's wrong with my program?
2.12 - What's the proper way to close a TCP socket?
2.13 - What can you tell me about MFC's CSocket and CAsyncSocket?
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