[issue21531] Sending a zero-length UDP packet to asyncore invokes handle_close()

2014-05-19 Thread Tony Gedge
Tony Gedge added the comment: If it's true that asyncore doesn't support UDP, I'd suggest at least a statement to this effect in the documentation. As far as I can see, there's nothing to suggest it won't work with UDP. -- ___ Python tracker rep

[issue21531] Sending a zero-length UDP packet to asyncore invokes handle_close()

2014-05-18 Thread Tony Gedge
New submission from Tony Gedge: Sending a zero-length UDP packet to asyncore closes socket by default. The default implementation of recv() assumes that zero-length data means close. This isn't true for UDP - it is possible to send a zero-length payload packet. A possible work-around