htonl

Convert long integer from host ordered to network ordered

Declaration

Source position: socketsh.inc line 208

function htonl(

host: LongInt

):LongInt;

htonl makes sure that the bytes in host are ordered in the correct way for sending over the network and returns the correctly ordered result.

htons		Convert short integer from host ordered to network ordered
ntohl		Convert long integer from network ordered to host ordered
ntohs		Convert short integer from network ordered to host ordered