#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
    int status;//hold getaddrinfo results
    struct addrinfo hints;
    struct addrinfo *res;
    const char *ip= "127.0.0.1";
    const char *port = "1337";
    hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;//socket ipv4, or ipv6, unspec == both
    hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;//user datagram socket
    hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE;//non hardcoded ip value
    getaddrinfo(ip, port, &hints, &res);//fill struct res with socket info
    int sock = socket(res->ai_family, res->ai_socktype, res->ai_protocol);//create socket
    bind(sock, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen);//bind to an address
    connect(sock, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen);
    freeaddrinfo(res);
    char* buf[11];
        int data = recv(sock, (void*)buf, 11, 0); //(void*)buf == (void*)(char*) basically, you are typecasting char* to void*
        std::cout << data;
        return 0;
}