[ee122] Persistant Connections

[Daniel Killebrew]

You could call recv() with the non-blocking and msg_peek flags to see if 
the socket is open without blocking or removing any data from the recv() 
buffer.

Daniel

Haley Nguyen wrote:
> On the client side, the socket is blocking, so the recv on the client 
> side is blocking. Therefore, if recv return 0, it means that the other 
> side close the connection. This is where I get the answer: 
> http://mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/recv.3.asp.
>
> On 10/31/07, *Ofer Sadgat* <ofer at berkeley.edu 
> <mailto:ofer at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
>     If you have a connection to a server which you send a request and
>     request a persistent connection but the server refuses. In its
>     response it includes a Content-Length header. As the client I
>     parse this and receive content-length data. However, Once I have
>     received the data I continue on with no more calls to read.
>     However, the server now closes the connection and the client has
>     no idea of this event. The client then makes a request to the same
>     server and noticing that that is where it last connected it
>     doesn't establish a new connection. The following recv call fails.
>
>      
>
>     How do I fix this? Is there a way to check whether or not a server
>     has closed the connection without receiving data?
>
>      
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Ofer
>
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