The Windows Sockets htons function converts a u_short from host to TCP/IP network byte order (which is big-endian).
u_short htons (
u_short hostshort
);
The htons function takes a 16-bit number in host byte order and returns a 16-bit number in network byte order used in TCP/IP networks.
The htons function returns the value in TCP/IP network byte order.
Windows NT: Yes
Windows: Yes
Windows CE: Use version 1.0 and later.
Header: Declared in winsock2.h.
Import Library: Link with ws2_32.lib.
htonl, ntohl, ntohs, WSAHtonl, WSAHtons, WSANtohl, WSANtohs