Re: Timeout in a CSOCKET

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:10:35 -0500
Message-ID:
<44c4ff5c$0$23697$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
You might give SO_RCVTIMEO a try. But I am not sure if it works or not.

I must say this not a nice way of socket programming (in the windows world
atleast).

One thing the CSocket or CAsyncSocket class will receive a message when
there is data to be received. So you shouldn't call Receive unless you get
that message. This way you can use a windows timer for the timeout.

One other thing, you should put the Receive call in a loop since you might
not get all of the data in the first Receive call.

AliR.

"Papastefanos Serafeim" <serafeim@otenet.gr> wrote in message
news:ea2sbq$pl9$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr...

I'm not sure if it's the correct newsgroup. If it's
not tell me and I'll repost to
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.networks.

I have written some code using CSocket, and
now there's a requirement for a timeout when
receiving data. So, I just want to do something
like

CSocket s;
s.Create();
s.Connect(...);
if(s.Recv(...) == ERROR_TIMEOUT ) {
    got_a_timeout(...);
} else {
    handle_data(...);
}

without changing many things in the already
written code. Is this possible or I have to use
another class ?

Thanks for any help !

--
Papastefanos Serafeim
serafeim@otenet.gr

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