RE: Sockets problem (what is)

["Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Reading all this it seems that whoever wrote the server didn't understand
sockets and the need for a different port/connection at all.  Handing off to
another port just seems a patchy solution to compensate all this.

Anyway, there's no mechanism as far as I know that supports to "hand off" a
connection to another port.  You can however program any scenario and tell a
client to connect again (which is different than handing off) on a different
port.

Requirement number one is however a clear protocol description from the
server side. Without that you'll 'never' succeed in writing a good client.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: 23 April, 2002 1:12
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Sockets problem (what is)


Right.  How do "they" know they've handed you off to another port?


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