winsock2 client return self port number - c++

Question

I'm using lib winsock2 in Visual Studio community, using simple client example.
After executing connect() function, would like to know how can I get/return self/source port number of open connection.

Answer 1

In winsock2, when a connection is established you can bind socket port to some specific port you want to use. For example, let´s say you are creating an UDP or TCP socket and you want that a specific local port is used. In that case you can do that by calling bind function ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winsock/nf-winsock-bind )
if (port != 0) {
int rv = -1;
struct sockaddr_in recv_addr;
ZeroMemory(&recv_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
recv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
recv_addr.sin_port = htons(port);
recv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
rv = bind(udp_channel->socket, (SOCKADDR *)& recv_addr, sizeof(recv_addr));
}
This is the same bind function you will use to set listening port when your socket will act as a server in UDP or TCP, it's the same.
In case you don't do socket binding, socket port will be assigned on connection. There seems to be the function getsockname that user207421 mentioned.

Answer 2

getsockname() or getpeername()
returning Structured data with short sin_family and char sa_data[] with different amount of data depending on the protocols used
after connection to server use fuction getsockname() or getpeername() to get the structured data we need to extract the data to get the port
you use function ntohs() for extracting the port data with macro function SS_PORT to convert struct to sockaddr_in
example:
sockaddr struc_;
int struc_len = sizeof(struc_);
/* connect function*/
getsockname(ConnectSocket, (LPSOCKADDR)&struc_, &struc_len);
int port_int_ = ntohs(SS_PORT(&struc_));
or you can define a ready-made structure / create your own, with a pointer to port number data.