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TIdStackLinux.HostToNetwork Method (LongWord)
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Converts a numeric value to its Network byte order representation.

Pascal
function HostToNetwork(
    AValue: LongWord
): LongWord; override;
Parameters
Parameters 
Description 
AValue 
Numeric value to convert to its Network byte order. 
Returns

LongWord - Network byte order for the numeric value.

Description

HostToNetwork is an overloaded abstract virtual function in TIdStack that specifies methods used to access the htons() and htonl() APIs in a protocol stack implementation. 

HostToNetwork is used to convert the numeric value in AValue from its platform-specific byte order to its representation in Network byte order. 

The return value is the numeric value in AValue converted to its Network byte order representation.

See Also

TIdStack.HostToNetwork

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