Creating a passive socket
A passive socket or acceptor socket is a type of socket that is used to wait for connection establishment requests from remote applications that communicate over the TCP protocol. This definition has two important implications:
- Passive sockets are used only in server applications or hybrid applications that may play both roles of the client and server.
- Passive sockets are defined only for the TCP protocol. As the UDP protocol doesn't imply connection establishment, there is no need for a passive socket when communication is performed over UDP.
This recipe explains how to create and open a passive socket in Boost.Asio.
How to do it…
In Boost.Asio a passive socket is represented by the asio::ip::tcp::acceptor class. The name ...
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