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,

> 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

## Contents

* 1 GNet Features
* 2 Applications that use GNet
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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.[1]

## 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

1. ↑ "Projects/GNetLibrary – GNOME Wiki Archive". https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects(2f)GNetLibrary.html.

## External links

* GNet Official site
* GNetWorld
* GIO Official site

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