[Gambas-user] Socket Limitations

[Benoît Minisini]

> gb3, qt4 on Ubuntu 9.10.
> 
> Are there any known limits on the size of data that can be sent down a
> socket in one gulp?
> 
> I have a proxy written in gb3 that uses Socket to communicate with a
> remote server and uses ServerSocket to get data from the client.
> ServerSocket seems to gag when given anything above 44k or so but it
> eventually recovers and retrieves the data being forced down it's
> throat. However Socket consistently fails between 41 and 47k and never
> ever recovers.
> 
> I have proved that Socket is the issue and not ServerSocket by sending
> 41-47k chunks of data down Socket without ServerSocket being involved
> in the transaction.
> 
> I know I can break the data up into multiple chunks before sending it
> through the socket but the proxy is already doing some very heavy-duty
> signalling, which proxies are wont to do, so I'm loathe to add even
> more signals into the proxy. I just want to know if there are known
> limits on Socket. I don't want to break up the data into multiple
> chunks for the reason I just mentioned so if I am forced to limit the
> size of data going down a socket then that's fine by me. It's a design
> decision I'll have to make.
> 
> I merely want to know. Well, I want to know for sure because I
> certainly suspect it :)
> 
> I am using Read# and Write# commands with Lof(), btw.
> 
> Oh, I decided to post this to the user list rather than the developer
> list because I'm not convinced it's a gb3-specific issue.
> 

Do you mean that if you write more than 41K of data on a Socket, it fails 
silently? Please provide the source code of the network communication, 
otherwise I can't see what you are doing exactly.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini