Dr. J. J. "One Eyed CrackerJack" Harbaugh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriele Santilli Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] [ports] [tcp] Detecting peer closing connection Hello all, while doing some tests I and Romano have discovered a strange behavior in REBOL TCP ports. I thought that, when the peer closes the TCP connection, you got NONE returned by COPY on the TCP port; however, it is not always so. We have discovered that, if there's data in the port output buffer, and the port is in binary mode, when the peer closes teh connection you'll get an empty binary (#{}) instead of NONE as the result of COPY. This way it becomes difficult to know that the connection was closed (because empty data also means "no new data available"). If you are using PORT/AWAKE, however, you can assume that an empty result is equivalent to NONE, since the AWAKE won't be called if there's no new data available. Basically, if your PORT/AWAKE is like this: port/awake: func [port /local data] [ data: copy port either data [ do-something-with data ] [ ; peer closed connection close port ; remove it from wait list, etc. ] ] it won't work if the port, at the time the peer closes the connection, has data in the send buffer. You'll have to use, instead: port/awake: func [port /local data] [ data: copy port either any [none? data empty? data] [ ; peer closed connection close port ; remove it from wait list, etc. ] [ do-something-with data ] ] that seems to work in every case. (Note: won't work if you have ASYNC-MODES set to 'WRITE, since then the AWAKE would be called even if no data is in the receive buffer.) I think this issue is the reason why some people (Gregg?) had problems with async:// when peer closed the connection. I'll fix my version of async:// soon (but becomes a bit complicated because of the WRITE async mode). (BTW, I found the strange behavior, and Romano found out the reason, so all the credit goes to him. :) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- REBOL Programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila --- SOON: http://www.rebol.it/ -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
