I'm trying to create a simple local server and to connect with c++ code but it fails...

[cunning belfry]

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Client side:

#define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS //Avoids me from warnings
#include <WinSock2.h>
#include <Windows.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "ws2_32.lib")

#include <iostream>

class Connect2 {

};

WSADATA wsaData;
int main() {

    // address family (The Internet Protocol version 4),
    // type specification for the socket (SOCK_STREAM),
    // protocol (TCP)
    SOCKET s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

    // connect
    struct sockaddr_in sa = { 0 };
    sa.sin_family = AF_INET;
    sa.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");    //Server IP
    sa.sin_port = htons(8080); //converts the unsigned integer hostlong from host byte order to network ... ??
    connect(s, (struct sockaddr*)&sa, sizeof(sa));

    send(s, "Hello from client!", 18, 0);

    std::cout << "message from server: " << std::endl;
    char msg[1024] = { 0 };
    recv(s, msg, 1024, 0);
    std::cout << msg << std::endl;

    closesocket(s);

    return 0;
}

[summer pike]

you don't check the return value of either bind or listen for errors

bind could fail if there is already a process listening to the port

[cunning belfry]

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