dayclient.java

These two classes show an extremely simple example of java.net socket programming. They implement th

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

/**
 * Tiny socket client for the Unix 'daytime' protocol.
 */

public class Dayclient
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
	Socket csocket;
	BufferedReader   timestream;
	if (args.length < 1) {
	    System.err.println("Please supply a host name or IP address");
	    System.exit(0);
	}
	try
	    {
		csocket = new Socket(args[0],13);
		timestream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(csocket.getInputStream()));
		String thetime = timestream.readLine();
		System.out.println("it is "+ thetime + " at " + args[0]);

       
		csocket.close();
          
	    }

	catch(IOException e)
	    { System.err.println(e);}

    }
}