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I want to build a transfer protocol on top of TCP to send a certain type of file between two computers. I was wondering if there were any Resources, open source projects or books that I could look at to get an idea of what I should be doing.

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A good place to start would be the W3C HTTP/1.1 standard or the HTTP/1.0 standard if you want to implement something simple. You probably only need to implement the GET verb if you just wan't simple I/O. You could also look at implementing JSON as a data interchange format. If you're looking for information on how to implement a TCP/IP server too, then there are several books on the subject.