I have a problem concerning boost asio libraries. I successfully tried to create a socket between a client and a server, this involves creation of resolvers in order to specify ip and port to the server (the server only requires port) and other objects, but, most importantly, it is necessary to use write and read_some as functions to read and write from/in the socket. I would really appreciate to use a stream, and this is possible in boost asio, but that's strange... In almost all examples using streams, to create a server it is necessary to provide port, ok, let's talk about the client... client side, it is necessary to use the iostream constructor to specify coordinates for connecting the stream, here's the code:

Well, I don't really understand what is passed in the first parameter and really don't know what daytime might ever represent... Basically, here, I'm telling: "Hey stream, you must connect to this server..." but how can I specify ip and port of that server? Note that, on the opposite, everything is almost clear server side:

You would potentially create one archive and use it throughout, especially for outbound. For inbound you may have issues if you get a streaming error as it will break your archive.

You can use a text archive instead of a binary one.

The boost archive will automatically put in header information so it knows when an object is complete and will only return to you once it has a complete object or something has broken.

Note: primitive types, eg std::string and even vector< int > etc. are automatically handled by an archive. Your own classes will need special overloads as to how to stream them. You should read boost::archive documentation.

Note: You can connect the archive object to the stream before the stream has been opened. The archive works around the streambuf object which does not change dependent on the stream opening successfully.

Creating without no_header would be an issue though as the archives immediately try to use the stream on construction (to read or write their header)