BoostSocket/UsageScenarios

Client Usage

• Download a web page -- Open a socket to a URL and download a web page into an std::string. (started in libs/socket/example/http_get.cpp -HD)
• Perhaps a web spider, but this is alot of code...
• Simple console based POP3 client.
• telnet??

Server Usage

The server usage of a socket is often much more demanding then some of the client scenarios.

• Implement a file download (eg:simple one-at-a-time retrieval of file data). Server accepts socket connection, takes path name as input and returns the file as chars into the socket.
• Simple http web server just serving files.
• Simple smtp/pop3 server.

Peer-to-Peer

• An 'instant messaging' example where you 2 peers send messages back and forth.