TcpListener.AcceptTcpClient query

[Nish Nishant]

TcpListener.AcceptTcpClient is a blocking call. How do I elegantly stop the call? From another thread say I want to stop listening. If I call TcpListener.Stop on the TcpListener object I get an exception. Some funny exception about how I halted a blocking operation. Right now I am putting an empty try{}...catch{} block and evading this exception. But there must be a more elegant solution! Any help is hugely appreciated! Warm regards Nish

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[James T Johnson]

Untested; but give this a shot. Instead of calling AcceptTcpClient() from the start; make calls to Pending() instead, and when it returns true THEN make the call to AcceptTcpClient. Since that probably sounds convoluted, here's some code to illustrate it :)

TcpListener tcpL = ....;

tcpL.Start();

while(bShouldAcceptConnections)
{
if( tcpL.Pending() )
{
TcpClient tcpC = tcpL.AcceptTcpClient();
// do something with it
}

// Other processing that will eventually set
// bShouldAcceptConnections to false
}

tcpL.Stop();

HTH, James "Java is free - and worth every penny." - Christian Graus

[Andres Manggini]

Yes, I have an application using pretty much the same logic and it works ok. Andres Manggini. Buenos Aires - Argentina.