CPSC 317 Tutorial 10: C Server Programming

A tutorial on C Server programming for CPSC 317. Intended to support programming assignment 3, which consists of implementing either an SMTP mail client or FTP server.

About

The goals of this tutorial are to

1. Gain familiarity with C
2. Gain familiarity with writing server-side programs in C
3. Understand what the FTP protocol is and why it is used

Exercises

• Complete strtok exercise under corresponding directory
• Complete the enum exercise, too

Resources

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• A guide to GNU make
• ftp-server-tutorial.pdf
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
• strtok()
• POSIX thread (pthread) libraries