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I recently was complaining about how complicated socket programming was in C - so in an effort to help my future self, I created a little wrapper around connecting and binding sockets in C.

To bind a socket to all interfaces via TCP on port 8080:

int s = connection_bind("tcp://:8080");

To bind a socket to the local interface via TCP on port 8080:

int s = connection_bind("tcp://localhost:8080");

To connect to www.codefall.com on port 80:

int s = connection_connect("tcp://www.codefall.com:80");

UDP works too:

int s = connection_bind("udp://:8080");