Function create_socket

dependencies/httplib/httplib.h:2518–2608

template <typename BindOrConnect>
socket_t create_socket(const char *host, const char *ip, int port,
                       int address_family, int socket_flags, bool tcp_nodelay,
                       SocketOptions socket_options,
                       BindOrConnect bind_or_connect) {
  // Get address info
  const char *node = nullptr;
  struct addrinfo hints;
  struct addrinfo *result;

  memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(struct addrinfo));
  hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
  hints.ai_protocol = 0;

  if (ip[0] != '\0') {
    node = ip;
    // Ask getaddrinfo to convert IP in c-string to address
    hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
    hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST;
  } else {
    node = host;
    hints.ai_family = address_family;
    hints.ai_flags = socket_flags;
  }

  auto service = std::to_string(port);

  if (getaddrinfo(node, service.c_str(), &hints, &result)) {
#if defined __linux__ && !defined __ANDROID__
    res_init();
#endif
    return INVALID_SOCKET;
  }

  for (auto rp = result; rp; rp = rp->ai_next) {
    // Create a socket
#ifdef _WIN32
    auto sock =
        WSASocketW(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol, nullptr, 0,
                   WSA_FLAG_NO_HANDLE_INHERIT | WSA_FLAG_OVERLAPPED);
    /**
     * Since the WSA_FLAG_NO_HANDLE_INHERIT is only supported on Windows 7 SP1
     * and above the socket creation fails on older Windows Systems.
     *
     * Let's try to create a socket the old way in this case.
     *
     * Reference:
     * https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winsock2/nf-winsock2-wsasocketa
     *
     * WSA_FLAG_NO_HANDLE_INHERIT:
     * This flag is supported on Windows 7 with SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 with
     * SP1, and later
     *
     */
    if (sock == INVALID_SOCKET) {
      sock = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol);
    }
#else
    auto sock = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype, rp->ai_protocol);