Re: Detecting socket disconnection (Async?)

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From: Adam Clauss (cabadam_at_tamu.edu)
Date: 04/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:58:42 -0500

Hmm... OnReceive gets called for OnDisconnect. Well, I suppose it works, just does not seem very logical.

Thanks! 

-- 
Adam Clauss
cabadam@tamu.edu
"Andreas Håkansson" <andy.h (at) telia.com> wrote in message news:uwpXkP$IEHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Adam,
>
>     There are two types of disconnects; when the client explicitly closes
> the
> connection or when the connection is lost due to a network error (connect
> went down, etc).
>
> When the client explicitly closes the connection, your recieve callback will
> be called and your will recieve zero bytes - when this happens you know that
> the client is question has disconnected. To check for network errors you
> will
> have to catch the SocketException which you will be getting :)
>
> HTH,
>
> //Andreas
>
> "Adam Clauss" <cabadam@tamu.edu> skrev i meddelandet
> news:exjXkM$IEHA.2556@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > There seems to be various methods to determine when the remote client
> disconnects, but all of them I have seen are Synchronous.
> > AKA: Right before you try to send or receive data, check.
> >
> > Is there no way to do raise an event for this?  That way you know as soon
> as the client disconnects?
> >
> > There are events for Accepting, Connecting, Receiving, Sending... why not
> one for disconnecting?
> >
> > -- 
> > Adam Clauss
> > cabadam@tamu.edu
> >
> >
>
>

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