boost::corosio::tcp

Encapsulate the TCP protocol for socket creation.

Synopsis

Declared in <boost/corosio/tcp.hpp>

class tcp;

Description

This class identifies the TCP protocol and its address family (IPv4 or IPv6). It is used to parameterize socket and acceptor open() calls with a self‐documenting type.

The family(), type(), and protocol() members are implemented in the compiled library to avoid exposing platform socket headers. For an inline variant that includes platform headers, use native_tcp.

Example

tcp_acceptor acc( ioc );
acc.open( tcp::v6() );  // IPv6 socket
acc.set_option( socket_option::reuse_address( true ) );
acc.bind( endpoint( ipv6_address::any(), 8080 ) );
acc.listen();