Asynchronous socket EndReceive method not returning correct number of bytes?

[Chotchkie]

Hello,
I am running into a problem with Asynchronous socket communication. I
am developing a simple telnet client to interact with unix. I am
parsing received data for prompts and sending data on found. Problem
is, that sometimes EndReceive returns only a few bytes, much less than
what is in the buffer. Since I am parsing what is in the buffer up to
how large bytes received is, I end up skipping data. Odd thing is
that it works 1/2 the time and fails the rest. Here is some of my
code calls:

to initialize:
s.BeginConnect(ipep,callBackProc,s);

in callBackProc:
AsyncCallback receive = new AsyncCallback(OnReceivedData);

s1.BeginReceive(buffer,0,buffer.Length,SocketFlags .None,receive,s1);

in OnReceivedData:
nBytes = s1.EndReceive(ar); //here sometimes nBytes is X and number of
elements in buffer is Y where X<Y.

also in OnReceivedData to send such things as login, password, etc:
IAsyncResult ar3 = s.BeginSend(tmp,0,tmp.Length,SocketFlags.None,call BackProc,s);
s.EndSend(ar3);

any ideas? anyone run into this problem as well?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[William Stacey [MVP]]

> in callBackProc:

AsyncCallback receive = new AsyncCallback(OnReceivedData);

s1.BeginReceive(buffer,0,buffer.Length,SocketFlags .None,receive,s1);

in OnReceivedData:
nBytes = s1.EndReceive(ar); //here sometimes nBytes is X and number of
elements in buffer is Y where X<Y.
If you don't get all the data in the callback, you need to call BeginReceive
again in the callback.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ketexample.asp
for one way to do a async server.
also in OnReceivedData to send such things as login, password, etc:
IAsyncResult ar3 = s.BeginSend(tmp,0,tmp.Length,SocketFlags.None,call BackProc,s); s.EndSend(ar3);

EndSend is supposed to block until count bytes sent. Are you seeing
something different? See above link and post back if still having issues.
Cheers.

--
William Stacey, MVP

[Chotchkie]

Thanks for the response, I did get it working with the help of that
example you posted. Problem was that I was using a global buffer
variable, rather than one stored in a state object, so the buffer was
getting overwritten before I could process the data within.

"William Stacey [MVP]" <st***********@mvps.org> wrote in message news:<uZ**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...

in callBackProc:
AsyncCallback receive = new AsyncCallback(OnReceivedData);

s1.BeginReceive(buffer,0,buffer.Length,SocketFlags .None,receive,s1);

in OnReceivedData:
nBytes = s1.EndReceive(ar); //here sometimes nBytes is X and number of
elements in buffer is Y where X<Y.

If you don't get all the data in the callback, you need to call BeginReceive
again in the callback.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ketexample.asp
for one way to do a async server.

also in OnReceivedData to send such things as login, password, etc:
IAsyncResult ar3 =

s.BeginSend(tmp,0,tmp.Length,SocketFlags.None,call BackProc,s);

s.EndSend(ar3);

EndSend is supposed to block until count bytes sent. Are you seeing
something different? See above link and post back if still having issues.
Cheers.

[William Stacey [MVP]]

ahhh. One of the many joys of async programming. :-)

--
William Stacey, MVP

"Chotchkie" <ch****@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ee**************************@posting.google.c om...

Thanks for the response, I did get it working with the help of that
example you posted. Problem was that I was using a global buffer
variable, rather than one stored in a state object, so the buffer was
getting overwritten before I could process the data within.

"William Stacey [MVP]" <st***********@mvps.org> wrote in message

news:<uZ**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...

in callBackProc:
AsyncCallback receive = new AsyncCallback(OnReceivedData);

s1.BeginReceive(buffer,0,buffer.Length,SocketFlags .None,receive,s1);

in OnReceivedData:
nBytes = s1.EndReceive(ar); //here sometimes nBytes is X and number of
elements in buffer is Y where X<Y.

If you don't get all the data in the callback, you need to call BeginReceive again in the callback.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ketexample.asp for one way to do a async server.

also in OnReceivedData to send such things as login, password, etc:
IAsyncResult ar3 =

s.BeginSend(tmp,0,tmp.Length,SocketFlags.None,call BackProc,s);

s.EndSend(ar3);

EndSend is supposed to block until count bytes sent. Are you seeing
something different? See above link and post back if still having issues. Cheers.