Re: LuaSocket - how can a tcp client detect a closed connection?

["David Burgess" <dburgess@...>]

Maybe try a  select().
select() should return an error FDS when doing a send()

db

On 3/2/07, Romulo Bahiense <romulo@icontroller.com.br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to implement a Keep-Alive connection using the
> socket.http library. I'm already able to detect and handle the details
> (http headers, persisting the socket userdata etc.)
>
> The problem is: how to detect when the server (httpd: apache+fastcgi)
> closes the connection? I've tried to watch the results of client:send()
> while sending the reqline and detecting if the error is "closed", but it
> seems that the client is acting as if nothing had happened until it
> tries to read from the same socket.
>
> Another solution I've tried is to socket.protect socket.http.request{}
> and repeat the whole request when the connection was closed, but
> sometimes the server _do_ close the connection and repeating the request
> would be wrong.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas?
>
> WinXP, Lua 5.0.2, LuaSocket-2.0.1-lua50-win32.
>
> Thanks.