htons() function in socket programing

Question

I am new to socket programming and I am trying to understand the operation of htons(). I\'ve read a few tutorials on the Internet like this and this one for in

Answer 1

htons is host-to-network short

This means it works on 16-bit short integers. i.e. 2 bytes.

This function swaps the endianness of a short.

Your number starts out at:

0001 0011 1000 1001 = 5001

When the endianness is changed, it swaps the two bytes:

1000 1001 0001 0011 = 35091