GNet

GNet is a simple network library. It is written in C, object-oriented, and built upon GLib. It is intended to be small, fast, easy-to-use, and easy to port. The interface is similar to the interface for Java's network library.

GNet has been ported to Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows. It may work on other flavors of Unix too.

According to the GNet reference below, <blockquote> GNet is very soon (with the release of GLib 2.22.0) going to be deprecated and replaced by the newly added platform-independent network and socket abstraction layer in GLib/Gio </blockquote>

GNet Features

• TCP "client" and "server" sockets.
• UDP and IP Multicast sockets.
• High-level TCP connection and server objects.
• GConnHttp - HTTP connection object.
• Asynchronous socket IO.
• Internet address abstraction.
• Asynchronous DNS lookup.
• IPv4 and IPv6 support.
• Byte packing and unpacking.
• URI parsing.
• SHA-1 and MD5 hashes.
• Base64 encoding and decoding.
• SOCKS support.

Applications that use GNet

• eDonkey2000 - eDonkey2000 GTK GUI (DFS) frontend
• Gnome Chinese Checkers - board game
• Gnome Jabber - instant messaging and chat
• gtermix - telnet client for BBSes
• Jungle Monkey - distributed file sharing program
• Mail Notify - mail notification applet
• MSI - multi-simulation interface
• Pan - Gnome Newsreader
• PreViking - telephony middleware
• Sussen - network scanner (GNetLibrary)
• Workrave - rest break reminder

References

External links

• GNet Official site
• GNetWorld
• GIO Official site