Re: keepalive in socket server program

My answer is that TCP will do that automatically and unless they are
sending you are specific message you should have to do nothing but Scott
could answer that question better than me. Unless one side or the other
closes the connection or there is an error it stays open which goes to your
earlier question about receive timeouts.

What I read from your answer is that this is not a traditional socket
server/socket worker type of application. You are just going to accept the
connection and stay in the server. You only have one connection? When the
customer breaks the connection, you go back to waiting on an accept for
another connection request.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am working on a socket server program where the connection will remain
open most of the day. The specifications from the client (I have no
control over this) indicate that they will periodically send a keepalive to
me.
My questions are: 1 - How do I detect that a keepalive was sent
2 - What (if anything) do I need to send back.


TIA


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
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