Okay, maybe that's it. I'm using windows 7. Is the line buffering in the node documentation? Thanks.
On Friday, September 21, 2012 7:09:10 PM UTC-4, Nathan Rajlich wrote: > > What are you using to connect to your server? Telnet? Is this Windows or > Unix? I think I remember hearing in the past that the Windows version of > Telnet sends characters immediately instead of line-buffering. This *could* > be the case, and if it is, then your chat server would need to be extended > to buffer lines and "boardcast" on newlines. > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, gswartz > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I'm going through the O'Reilly node - up and running book. In chapter 2 >> they have code to put together a chat server. It's simple enough and >> though mine is somewhat working, the output doesn't match what they show. >> In the example, it shows that when a client enters some data it's written >> to the other clients terminal window as a full string. In my case it >> writes out each character instead of waiting until I hit the enter key. >> From what I can see, my code is the same as the book so I'm not sure why >> the output is different. Can anyone see the problem? Thanks. >> >> var net = require("net"); >> >> var chatServer = net.createServer(), clientList = []; >> >> chatServer.on("connection", function(client){ >> client.name = client.remoteAddress + ":" + client.remotePort; >> clientList.push(client); >> >> client.write("Hi " + client.name + "!\n"); >> client.on("data", function(data){ >> broadcast(data, client); >> }); >> }); >> >> function broadcast(message, client){ >> for (var i = 0; i < clientList.length; i++){ >> if (client !== clientList[i]){ >> clientList[i].write(client.name + " says " + message); >> } >> } >> } >> >> chatServer.listen(9000); >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
