Sending commands to a CoD server

[dragonbane]

I decided to try to make a rcon tool for my clan. I'm working on the interface right now, and that's going along smoothly. However, once that's done I don't know anything about sending and receiving information from a server so I'll be stuck. I have done a lot of looking around, and some people have mentioned winsock2 but I haven't been able to find any good information on it. Can someone point me in the right direction? Is this the path I should be headed down?

[Athar]

Yes, sockets are the way to go. Tutorials are easily found by searching for "socket tutorial" or something similar in Google.

[NickPaul]

This tutorial helped me: http://www.madwizard.org/programming/tutorials/netcpp/

[sohguanh]

Once you get your sockets up and running, you would want to think of the protocol for communication. It could be a customized protocol or even simple CSV protocol or whatever.

But for messaging purposes, I seem to see XMPP mentioned quite frequently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol