htons

Convert short integer from host ordered to network ordered

Declaration

Source position: socketsh.inc line 188

  function htons(host: Word) : Word;

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

Name	Description
htonl	Convert long 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