Win Socks

I recently started programming(Recently–yesterday) I coded a really basic Server-Client pair… I got some errors,but resolved them.

However,I was unable to get the desired output. Instead of displaying the sent message ("Hello\n"), It is showing some other characters(not even letters.

I post here,the code for both the client and server as well as a screenshot of the output of the server.

Server

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <winsock2.h> //calls the winsocket version 2 header file
main()
{
      //Start WinSock:
      WSADATA wsaData; //a required parameter for WSAStartup();
      WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData); // requests Winsocket version 2.2
      
      if ( (LOBYTE( wsaData.wVersion ) != 2)||(HIBYTE( wsaData.wVersion ) !=2 ))
     {
         system("pause");
     }
     else
     {
         puts("Version correct");
     }

      
      //Create Socket:
      SOCKET mysock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); //this line creates the socket
      
       //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      //------------------------------------------------------------------------
      
      if (mysock == INVALID_SOCKET) 
      { // if anything goes wrong...
      cout << "Error: " << WSAGetLastError() << " occurred!" << endl;
      system ("pause");
      }
      else
      {
          puts("Socket Created");
      }
      
      
       //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
      //------------------------------------------------------------------------
      
            
      //Bind Socket:
     sockaddr_in anews;
      anews.sin_port = htons(87);
      anews.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
      anews.sin_family = AF_INET;
      if (bind(mysock, (sockaddr*)&anews, sizeof(anews)) == SOCKET_ERROR) 
 
      //------------------------------------------------------------------------
      //------------------------------------------------------------------------
      
      {
       cout << "Error: " << WSAGetLastError() << " occurred!" << endl;
       system ("pause");
       return 0;
      }
      else
      {
          puts("Binded socket");
      }
      
      //------------------------------------------------------------------------
      //------------------------------------------------------------------------
      
      //Listen:
      while(listen(mysock,SOMAXCONN)==SOCKET_ERROR);
      
      //Accept connection:
      SOCKET client;
      client = accept(mysock,NULL,NULL);
      //recieve info:
      char buf[200];
      recv(mysock, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
      
      //close winsock:
      closesocket(mysock);
      closesocket(client);
      WSACleanup();

      //show recived message:
      puts("Received: \n");
      puts(buf);
      system("pause");//Pause
      
      //return:
      return 0;
}

Client

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <winsock2.h>
using namespace std;

int main () 
{
WSADATA wsaData;
int starterr = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsaData);
SOCKET mysock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
sockaddr_in anews;
anews.sin_port = htons(87);
anews.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
anews.sin_family = AF_INET;
connect(mysock,(sockaddr*)&anews, sizeof(anews));
char buf[200] = "Hello\n";
send(mysock, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
puts(buf);
system("pause");
closesocket(mysock);
WSACleanup();
return 0;
}

Output

Thanks

Analyze the following lines, see if you can spot your error, explained below.

SOCKET client;
client = accept(mysock,NULL,NULL);
//recieve info:
char buf[200];
recv(mysock, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);

When you accept() the connections that are queued up during the listen() call, a new socket is returned (by the accept()). So you have to use the newly created socket for dealing with send()'ing and recv()'ing.

Thanks!!!