or you can flush it without closing with SrmReceiveFlush (new serail
manager) or SerReceiveFlush (old serial manager)
At 23:53 21/02/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Obviously....
>Sockets (not just on Palm) work like pipes. If you write something at one
>end, it will *someday* come out at the other end. Your client timed-out -
>but that doesn't mean the server knows about it or the fact that the client
>send a new request. These are details that you should work out in your
>application level protocol. You have two choices.
>(1) add sequence numbers to your request/response messages. This way you can
>ignore "old/junk" responses.
>(2) Close the connection after each failure - this will make sure you have
>flushed
>any data on the way. but this is costly.
>
>--
>Hari Bhaskaran
>"maggie lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:40578@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > i've a scenario from the palm it will send a message to the server and
>wait
> > for the reply and the timeout is 10 second. after this timeout i'll
>receive
> > NULL message. however when the server send the message after that timeout
> > period. upon the next submission that message sent after the 10 second was
> > received instead of the newest message.
> >
> > i hope those who understand can help me to solve the problem
> >
> > eg,
> > Send();
> > Receive();
> > Send();
> > Receive();
> >
> > void Send(char *label)
> > {
> > int sentBytes, sendBytes;
> >
> > sendBytes=strlen(label);
> > sentBytes=send(mySocket, label, sendBytes, 0);
> > if(sentBytes!=sendBytes)
> > {
> > SetFieldText(MainStatusField, "Error", 79, true);
> > }
> > SetFieldText(MainStatusField, "Send Complete...", 79, true);
> > }
> >
> >
> > void Receive(void)
> > {
> > int recvBytes, recvdBytes=100;
> > int x;
> >
> > for(x=0;x<80;x++)
> > {
> > recv_buf[x]=NULL;
> > }
> > recvBytes=recv(mySocket, recv_buf, recvdBytes, 0);
> > if(recvBytes!=recvdBytes)
> > {
> > FrmCustomAlert (GeneralAlert, recv_buf, NULL, NULL );
> > SetFieldText(MainStatusField, " ", 79, true);
> > }
> > }
> >
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