Arranging bytes in a packet

Question

If I need to create a packet like this:

field 1: SOCKS protocol version, 1 byte 
field 2: status, 1 byte: 
field 3: reserved, must be 0x00
field 4: address type, 1 byte: 
field 5: destination address of 
         1 byte of name length followed by the name for Domain name
field 6: network byte order port number, 2 bytes

char packet[6];   
packet[0] = 5;   
packet[1] = 0;   
packet[2] = 0;  
packet[3] = 1;   
packet[4] = /* ... ???? ... */;
packet[5] = 80;`

How do I write the packet[4] (field 5) for www.google.com? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In order to have what you want you can't have each field as a specific fixed index in the packet array because each position can only hold atmost one byte. You'd have to do something like this:

char address[] = "www.google.com";
int addressLen = strlen(address);
char* packet = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char)*6+addressLen);
int i;

packet[0] = 5;
...
packet[3] = 1;
packet[4] = addressLen;

for (i = 0; i < addressLen; i++) 
   packet[i + 5] = address[i];

packet[4 + addressLen] = 80;

EDIT: Actually I made this example for C. Should work in C++ aswell but I don't know the interface of the network library you're using. That malloc probably could be replaced by a new. Or you could use the standard containers since I think those can be accessed as an array aswell.