Building C Socket Communication: Server and Client

C Socket Server Implementation

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define PORT 8080
#define BUFFER_SIZE 1024

int main() {
    int server_fd, new_socket;
    struct sockaddr_in address;
    int addrlen = sizeof(address);
    char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};

    if ((server_fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == 0) {
        perror("socket failed");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    address.sin_family = AF_INET;
    address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
    address.sin_port = htons(PORT);

    if (bind(server_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&address, sizeof(address)) < 0) {
        perror("bind failed");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    if (listen(server_fd, 3) < 0) {
        perror("listen failed");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    if ((new_socket = accept(server_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&address, (socklen_t *)&addrlen)) < 0) {
        perror("accept failed");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    while (1) {
        int bytes_read = read(new_socket, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
        if (bytes_read <= 0)
            break;
        printf("Received: %s\n", buffer);
    }
    close(new_socket);
    close(server_fd);
    return 0;
}

C Socket Client Implementation

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define PORT 8080
#define BUFFER_SIZE 1024

int main() {
    int sock = 0;
    struct sockaddr_in serv_addr;
    char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE] = {0};

    if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
        perror("socket creation error");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    serv_addr.sin_port = htons(PORT);

    if (inet_pton(AF_INET, "127.0.0.1", &serv_addr.sin_addr) <= 0) {
        perror("Invalid address / Address not supported");
        return -1;
    }

    if (connect(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&serv_addr, sizeof(serv_addr)) < 0) {
        perror("connection failed");
        return -1;
    }

    while (1) {
        printf("Enter message: ");
        fgets(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, stdin);
        send(sock, buffer, strlen(buffer), 0);
        printf("Message sent\n");
    }

    close(sock);
    return 0;
}