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### Daytime.2 - A synchronous TCP daytime server

This tutorial program shows how to use asio to implement a server application with TCP.

    #include <ctime>
    #include <iostream>
    #include <string>
    #include <boost/asio.hpp>

    using boost::asio::ip::tcp;

We define the function `make_daytime_string()` to create the string to be sent back to the client. This function will be reused in all of our daytime server applications.

    std::string make_daytime_string()
    {
      using namespace std; // For time_t, time and ctime;
      time_t now = time(0);
      return ctime(&now);
    }

    int main()
    {
      try
      {
        boost::asio::io_service io_service;

A ip::tcp::acceptor object needs to be created to listen for new connections. It is initialised to listen on TCP port 13, for IP version 4.

        tcp::acceptor acceptor(io_service, tcp::endpoint(tcp::v4(), 13));

This is an iterative server, which means that it will handle one connection at a time. Create a socket that will represent the connection to the client, and then wait for a connection.

        for (;;)
        {
          tcp::socket socket(io_service);
          acceptor.accept(socket);

A client is accessing our service. Determine the current time and transfer this information to the client.

          std::string message = make_daytime_string();

          boost::system::error_code ignored_error;
          boost::asio::write(socket, boost::asio::buffer(message), ignored_error);
        }
      }

Finally, handle any exceptions.

      catch (std::exception& e)
      {
        std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
      }

      return 0;
    }

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