Re: Detecting dead connection with TCPSession?

[Massimo Balestri]

I wrote a similar application and found the same problem. 
Does anybody know how to handle this?

Best regards,
Massimo.

At 14.17 01/04/2002 -0500, Austen, Tyler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a simple socket server that accepts connections on a socket
> by creating TCPSessions.  Currently, my server will accept a
> connection from a client, but if the client "dies", or even
> closes down gracefully, my server's TCPSession is none the
> wiser.
>
> I've got the server's TCPSession checking the following conditions
> periodically (i.e. every 1second):
>
>   - isActive() 
>   - isConnected() 
>   - tcp()->good() 
>   - getErrorNumber() == 0
>
> None of these checks evaluate to false...  I was expecting
> isConnected() to tell me that the connection was bad, but it
> didn't.
>
> Any ideas what I should do so that my server's TCPSession can know when
> the client has gone away?
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> Tyler
>
>
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