Block Socket Connection Receive Never Throws A Socketexception ????

[XenReborn]

Hi,

I wrote a simple socket application, which connects to a simple socket server application I also wrote, the server opens a socket, listens, accepts connections, sends back a string of information and then disconnects.

Problem is the client, is the harder to manage, I use blocking mode to receive, after the timeout receive is supposed to throw a socketexception (according to the docs) but it never does... please help me... the code contained in the exception handler is supposed to determine whether or not the socket is still active.... unfortunately its not working..

John

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
 
 
            Socket hammersocket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
 
            try
            {
 
                hammersocket.Blocking = true;
                hammersocket.ReceiveBufferSize = 255;
                hammersocket.ReceiveTimeout = 10000;
                hammersocket.Connect("127.0.0.1", 6651);
 
            }
            catch (SocketException)
            {
                textBox1.Text += "\r\nConnect Failed.";
            }
 
            while (hammersocket.Connected)
            {
 
                    byte[] thetext = new byte[255];
 
                    try
                    {
                       int numbytes = hammersocket.Receive(thetext);
                       string l = "";
 
                       for (int x = 0; x < numbytes; x++)
                       {
                          l = l + (char)thetext[x];
                       }
 
                            textBox1.Text += "\r\n" + l;
                    }
                    catch (SocketException)
                    {
                            string otherstuff = "PONG";
                            Encoding toascii = Encoding.ASCII;
 
                            try
                            {
                                textBox1.Text += "\r\n Sending..";
                                hammersocket.Send(toascii.GetBytes(otherstuff.ToCharArray()));
                                textBox1.Text += "\r\n Sent...";
                            }
                            catch (SocketException e3)
                            {
                                if (e3.NativeErrorCode.Equals(10035))
                                {
                                    textBox1.Text += "\r\nException: 10035";
 
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    textBox1.Text += "\r\nOther exception";
                                    textBox1.Text+="Connected ?:"+hammersocket.Connected.ToString();
 
                                }
                            }
                        }
 
                    this.Refresh();
            }
 

[Plater]

Did you wait the 10seconds for the socketexception? are you sure data didn't just come in?
If you need a way to determine if the socket is still connected, there are better ways.
For a Socket called s:

bool part1 = s.Poll(1000, SelectMode.SelectRead);
bool part2 = (s.Available == 0);
if (part1 & part2)
{//connection is closed
}
 

look up .Poll() on msdn for more information about it's uses and return value states.

[XenReborn]

Actually I found out that the only way to change the connected property is to try sending or receiving data. I modified my code to also send "ping" messages to the other side every 10 seconds, manually. Which seems to work, now I have a different problem see "THREAD DEADLOCKING" heh.. oh the joys of learning LOL

Thank you for help though :)