Re: Sockets Example Sought

[Robert Love <rblove@airmail.net>]

On 2012-11-24 21:01:34 +0000, Dmitry A. Kazakov said:

> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:27:04 -0600, Robert Love wrote:
> 
>> The statements about disposing of Data, what does Shutdown_Socket it
>> do? It seems to end my task and never reach the following Close_Socket
>> statement.  If I leave it out, I see Close_Socket execute and the
>> program seems to run fine.
> 
> Shutdown_Socket does a graceful disconnection before closing the socket. In
> particular it flushes/drops pending data. Under Windows it is important to
> call it in order to be able to open another socket for the same port.
> Otherwise it may take some considerable time after Close_Socket before the
> port becomes free. The effect is that you may experience sporadic "port in
> use" errors, e.g. when restarting the program.

BTW, is there an official way to tell when the client closes the 
socket?  When  I'm reading data, I can tell.   If I'm not reading data, 
I can call the Get_Peer(socket) function and catch an exception.  It 
just seems there should be another way?

Thanks for all the advice I've gotten so far.  I'm 95% finished.