Are you planning to write a java version of the SlimServer ? That would be cool. I guess it will be faster than the perl version.
Or are you writing a client ? Regards, Maarten On 4/11/06, Niklas Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Bauroth wrote: > > I would very interested in an explanation too (especially the > > trafficmask and attachment handling). Hope you have the time to do so. > > One problem with a tunneling proxy is that when a new client connects to > the proxy you want to prevent the client from sending any data until the > proxy has established a connection to the server. Otherwise you would > have to buffer up messages in ClientToProxyIoHandler.messageReceived() > until the proxy has conected to the server and then deliver the buffered > messages. > > The session.setTrafficMask(TrafficMask.NONE) prevents any data to be > read from the underlying socket. Since the example does this immediately > as the session is created no buffering will be necessary (the OS will do > the buffering so we don't have to). Once the proxy has established a > connection to the server the traffic mask will be changed to allow for > any waiting data to be delivered. > > Sessions can have an attachment. This is just something you can use to > associate an object with a session. MINA will never read or care about > the attachment. It's only there as a convenience for the developer using > MINA. In the example the attachment is used to associate the > client-to-proxy session with the proxy-to-server session and vice versa. > > Just let me know if you have any further questions! > > Regards, > Niklas >
