Socket Problem...

[hkl]

Hi, I use the following code: if ( svrSocket.Accept(socket)) AfxMessageBox("Socket is created Succesfully"); flag = socket.Receive(buff,sizeof(buff)); .... Is it true that everytime "socket.Receive(..)" must wait until it actually receives something?? What if I want it to pause the receiving for a small period?? Because it would be simply dead if it never receive anything. Can anyone please give me advance?? Thank you

[Joaquin M Lopez Munoz]

Use asynchronous sockets (CAsyncSocket, if you're doing it the MFC way). Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

[hkl]

Thank you for your reply!!:) Yes, I am doing the MFC way. But the socket cannot receive correctly if I use CAsyncSocket instead of CSocket. Is there a problem of my program?? Or is there another way to do it?? Thanks!

[Joaquin M Lopez Munoz]

The mode of use of CAsyncSocket is different than CSocket. Put briefly, with asynchronous sockets you've got to wait for the socket to tell you that reading/writing is permissible. Check the docs for this class. So I'm afraid you'll have to rewrite portions of your code to change to asynchronous. An alternative ad hoc solution I just ran into is using Tim Kosse's CSocket-Derived Class that Checks for Timeouts, which hopefully can be plugged into your program with minimum effort. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

[hkl]

Great! Thank you!! Let me try that!!:)