Network Functionality

wxWidgets provides more than just the wxSocket class for working with networks. These are some of the network-related wxSocket classes that you can find more about from the manual.

wxURI can be used to extract information from a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). A URL is a subset of a URI, so the wxURL class (for parsing and streaming from URLs) is derived from wxURI.

wxIPV4address is used to represent a standard Internet address.

wxFTP and wxHTTP can be used for performing FTP and HTTP operations. However, for a fuller implementation, consider using the CURL library instead (see Appendix E for wxCURL and wxCurlDAV).

wxDialUpManager encapsulates functions dealing with verifying the connection status of the computer (connected to the Internet via a direct connection, connected through a modem, or not connected at all) and to establish this connection if required. The application can also request notification about changes in the connection status. This class is currently only supported on Windows.

The wxEmail class in contrib/src/net can be used to send mail via SMAPI on Windows or the sendmail program on Linux.