Byte order with a large array of characters in C

Question

I am doing some socket programming in C, and trying to wrestle with byte order problems. My request (send) is fine but when I receive data my bytes are all out of order. I s

Answer 1

This works ok when I'm treating the data as a short, however if I cast the pointer to a char again the bytes are reversed.

That's what I'd expect.

What am I doing wrong?

You have to know what the sender sent: know whether the data is bytes (which don't need reversing), or shorts or longs (which do).

Google for tutorials associated with the ntohs, htons, and htons APIs.