Std streams and sockets

Not with the standard stream classes, no. You'll have to write your own or find one online.

Ok there is no way one can extend the std classes to incorperate this kind of behaviour?

Lizard

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Original post by LizardCPP Ok there is no way one can extend the std classes to incorperate this kind of behaviour?

Yes, there is. You need to create a stream buffer class derived from std::basic_streambuf (IIRC) that will do its read/writes through a socket (start by overloading the overflow and underflow member functions, then check out the rest of the virtual functions to see if changing them would be useful). You will then have to derive a stream class from std::iostream to encapsulate the stream buffer (namely to create the appropriate stream buffer instance and to provide open/close functions - the base std::iostream will provide the normal stream operations).

If you get involved in that kind of code a lot, consider buying "Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales" by Langer & Kreft.

Take a look at this gamedev.net thread