Re: socket trace

[jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Fellow Geeks:

Indeed they are rather simple, although since mine is part of
ThinView, its 
source code isn't available.

What I can say is that the
process of spawning off a proxy child server and 
handing off the socket to
it, when a connection is established in the standby 
server, and proxying
both sides of a half-duplex connection in a 
single-threaded language
(through the use of "select") is far more involved 
than the actual
proxying.

And unless you've got some (presumably unsupported) way of
calling the 
"UNIX-like" ILE APIs from MI, ILE C would be the language to
write this thing 
in. Or you could write it in Java, and do an actual
multi-threaded proxy 
(necessary if you need to proxy both sides of a
full-duplex conversation, and a 
good idea even for half-duplex if you're
expecting lots of small packets).

As always, apologies for the funky
formatting; my ISP's web-mail interface 
likes to throw in random carriage
returns for no apparent reason.

--
James H. H.
Lampert
Professional_Dilettante
http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl