...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Inherited from basic_socket.
Connect the socket to the specified endpoint.
void connect( const endpoint_type & peer_endpoint);
This function is used to connect a socket to the specified remote endpoint. The function call will block until the connection is successfully made or an error occurs.
The socket is automatically opened if it is not already open. If the connect fails, and the socket was automatically opened, the socket is not returned to the closed state.
The remote endpoint to which the socket will be connected.
Thrown on failure.
boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket socket(my_context); boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint endpoint( boost::asio::ip::address::from_string("1.2.3.4"), 12345); socket.connect(endpoint);