#include #include #include #include #include #include #include int helper_connect_tcp_server(char* host, uint16_t port) { char port_str[6]; sprintf(port_str, "%d", port); int s, status; struct addrinfo hints, *res; memset(&hints, 0, sizeof hints); hints.ai_family = AF_INET; //set IP Protocol flag (IPv4 or IPv6 - we don't care) hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM; //set socket flag if ((status = getaddrinfo(host, port_str, &hints, &res)) != 0) { //getaddrinfo() will evaluate the given address, using the hints-flags and port, and return an IP address and other server infos LOG_ERROR("getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(status)); return -1; } //res got filled out by getaddrinfo() for us s = socket(res->ai_family, res->ai_socktype, res->ai_protocol); //creating Socket if ((status = connect(s, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen)) != 0) { LOG_ERROR("connect() failed"); freeaddrinfo(res); return -1; } freeaddrinfo(res); return s; }