-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Bätzler [mailto:t.baetz...@bringe.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:57 AM To: beginners@perl.org Cc: Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL Subject: AW: testing tcp connection
>>Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL <marco.vankam...@springer.com> asked: >> I have an issue when something goes wrong with the client that's trying >> to connect. >> >> 9 out of 10 times this works fine, but there are odd situations where >> $clientip doesn't get filled in, which leaves me with a connection I >> can't do anything with... >> >> I tried to use close($client) to just terminate these odd connections >> when $clientip is empty but that doesn't work.. >From my understanding of sockets (strictly limited ;-)) you'll need to call >$client->shutdown( $how ): >From perlfunc: > shutdown SOCKET,HOW > Shuts down a socket connection in the manner indicated by HOW, which has the > same interpretation as in the system call of the same name. > shutdown(SOCKET, 0); # I/we have stopped reading data > shutdown(SOCKET, 1); # I/we have stopped writing data > shutdown(SOCKET, 2); # I/we have stopped using this socket > This is useful with sockets when you want to tell the other side you're done > writing but not done reading, or vice versa. It's also a more insistent > >form of close because it also disables the file descriptor in any forked > copies in other processes. >HTH, >Thomas Thanks Thomas, this seems exactly the thing I'm looking for! I'll give this a go! Marco. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
