Oh great networking gurus... Let's say I have a port open, and am receiving an endless stream of data from a server. Now, there may be times when the server is turned off, or goes out of wireless range, while I'm connected, and when that happens, the client takes a while to realize that the server is gone, and stops processing View events and such until he does.
Is there a fast and easy way to detect that the other end of a port has closed without doing a COPY/PART (it's a no-wait port already)? i.e. today I detect closed ports by looking for NONE as the return from COPY/PART, but there is a big delay when the server is turned off. Response time is better using awake/handler mode, rather than polling, but we've had issues in the past with data coming in after we've closed the port and the awake function being unhappy, so we haven't used that in production much; testing it again with the 2.6.2 releases though, just in case. Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions (and sorry I haven't been around for the recent challenges; busy REBOLing, which is a good thing :), -- Gregg -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
