General Introduction ******************** This file documents the networking features in GNU Awk ('gawk') version 4.0 and later. This is Edition 1.4 of 'TCP/IP Internetworking with 'gawk'', for the 4.1.4 (or later) version of the GNU implementation of AWK. Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License", the Front-Cover texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". a. "A GNU Manual" b. "You have the freedom to copy and modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
· Preface About this document. · Introduction About networking. · Using Networking Some examples. · Some Applications and Techniques More extended examples. · Links Where to find the stuff mentioned in this document. · GNU Free Documentation License The license for this document. · Index The index. · Stream Communications Sending data streams. · Datagram Communications Sending self-contained messages. · The TCP/IP Protocols How these models work in the Internet. · Basic Protocols The basic protocols. · Ports The idea behind ports. · Making Connections Making TCP/IP connections. · Gawk Special Files How to do 'gawk' networking. · Special File Fields The fields in the special file name. · Comparing Protocols Differences between the protocols. · File /inet/tcp The TCP special file. · File /inet/udp The UDP special file. · TCP Connecting Making a TCP connection. · Troubleshooting Troubleshooting TCP/IP connections. · Interacting Interacting with a service. · Setting Up Setting up a service. · Email Reading email. · Web page Reading a Web page. · Primitive Service A primitive Web service. · Interacting Service A Web service with interaction. · CGI Lib A simple CGI library. · Simple Server A simple Web server. · Caveats Network programming caveats. · Challenges Where to go from here. · PANIC An Emergency Web Server. · GETURL Retrieving Web Pages. · REMCONF Remote Configuration Of Embedded Systems. · URLCHK Look For Changed Web Pages. · WEBGRAB Extract Links From A Page. · STATIST Graphing A Statistical Distribution. · MAZE Walking Through A Maze In Virtual Reality. · MOBAGWHO A Simple Mobile Agent. · STOXPRED Stock Market Prediction As A Service. · PROTBASE Searching Through A Protein Database.