Re: How keep python socket alive for ever by setting Keep alive flag.

2012-06-25 Thread Dan Stromberg
http://www.unixguide.net/network/socketfaq/4.7.shtml It's better to add the ability to recreate a socket if it encounters trouble. SO_KEEPALIVE is there to help you detect if the other end of your connection has disappeared. Network programming has relatively few absolutes - it's best to build in

How keep python socket alive for ever by setting Keep alive flag.

2012-06-25 Thread hisan
Hi All, I want to open a socket connection and keep it alive for ever or until i explicitly close the socket connection. below is my code though i have set keep alive flag the socket gets closed after some time .please help me out here sb_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket