The difference and function of htons htonl Ntohl Ntohs

Htons, Htonl, Ntohl, Ntohs are functions that are used to convert between network byte order and native byte order.

You can understand this:

N:network;h:host;s:short;l:long

Htons:host to network The short type, and so on.

The specific usage is:

Htons:

#include <winsock.h>

U_short PASCAL FAR htons (u_short hostshort);

Hostshort: 16 Digits of host byte order expression.

Comments:

This function converts a 16-digit number from host byte order to network byte order.

return value:

Htons () returns the value of a network byte order.

The rest of the same.