Re: Client/Server Socket problem
"Java and Swing" <codecraig@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1159808665.115132.313650@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Hi, I have am trying to write a simple client/server, where the client
reads in a line of text and sends it to the server. the server
capitalizes the text and sends it back...but the server is never
finishing reading from the client socket input stream...any ideas?
client (snippet):
// connect to the server
sock = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 8000);
byte[] bytes = msg.getBytes();
// send the user input to the server
BufferedOutputStream bos = new
BufferedOutputStream(sock.getOutputStream());
bos.write(bytes);
bos.flush();
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
server (snippet):
ServerSocket sock = new ServerSocket(8000);
while (serving) {
try {
Socket client = sock.accept();
int val = -1;
BufferedInputStream bis = new
BufferedInputStream(client.getInputStream());
while ((val = bis.read()) != -1) {
System.out.print((char) val);
}
System.out.println("done reading from client...");
BufferedOutputStream bos = new
BufferedOutputStream(client.getOutputStream());
bos.write("GOT IT!".getBytes());
bos.flush();
The server is waiting for EOF which the client does not send. Flush does
not send an EOF and the absence of data does not constitute EOF. Only
closing the stream does that, which you may or may not want to do. If you
are intendeding to keep the stream open, you must either send some marker
(e.g. CR/LF) to tell the server to stop reading or send a length to tell it
how much to read. TCP is stream-oriented, not packet oriented.
Matt Humphrey matth@ivizNOSPAM.com http://www.iviz.com/
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