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string CommunicatingSocket::getForeignAddress ( ) throw (SocketException)

Get the foreign address.

Call connect() before calling recv()

Returns:: foreign address

Exceptions:

SocketException

thrown if unable to fetch foreign address

Definition at line 217 of file PracticalSocket.cpp.

References Socket::sockDesc.

00218                            {
00219   sockaddr_in addr;
00220   unsigned int addr_len = sizeof(addr);
00221 
00222   if (getpeername(sockDesc, (sockaddr *) &addr,(socklen_t *) &addr_len) < 0) {
00223     throw SocketException("Fetch of foreign address failed (getpeername())", true);
00224   }
00225   return inet_ntoa(addr.sin_addr);
00226 }