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Andy(Posted 2003) [#1]
Where can I find a good tutorial or some good examples to learn from?

There doesn't seem to be any installed with B3D!

Andy


jfk EO-11110(Posted 2003) [#2]
There are 3 Types of Networking: TCP, UDP and DirectPlay. There are several Examples in the Code Archive. I would also recommend to use Surreals Light Version of his Net-Game Library BlitzPlay (and maybe purchase the Pro Version later).

Some useful things are eg: Write and study a simple TCP Based HTTP Get request. Then compare this with the RFC Descriptions of the various HTTP Commands and try some of them. There isn't much to say about the Blitz-Part of the Networking. The FAQs are answered on many Transfer Protocol Description Pages, be it HTTP, FTP or any other TCP based Protocol.

For HTTP 1.1 have a look at the RFC2068 Definitions you might find at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html . And boomark http://www.iana.org/ .


Andy(Posted 2003) [#3]
>I would also recommend to use Surreals Light Version of
>his Net-Game Library BlitzPlay (and maybe purchase the Pro
>Version later).

Yeah, I tried to download it, but apparently the download is not working off of http://www.blitzcoder.com/blitzplay/

>Surreal< Could you please pimp another place to download BP lite in this thread.

Andy