Thanks to all who responded.
The VAR is not motivated to pay me to change the architecture of their
client-server model to work around flaws in the initServerSocket() function.
The VAR has a solution today using the GCI which implements server
(listener) sockets in the C language. Ultimately they
For anyone unfamiliar with the topic, see my short article What are
Sockets?:
http://nebula-rnd.com/articles/sockets.htm
That will also help to understand my response below.
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Gyle Iverson wrote:
Unfortunately, the initServerSocket() function has a few
flaws
I suspect she is writing a CLIENT socket service that RUNS on the server --
one where I'm opening a socket to get data from another service - and as any
process could be doing the same, I'd just want the next available socket,
please So I think the request is valid -- remember - our 3GL could
Hello, Tony.
Tony Gravagno opined...
Clients need to know the port of a server, so a server
absolutely requires a fixed and well-known port.
A server can have a randomly assigned port that is fixed and well-known only
between the client and the server. If the server only exists for the
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Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse server socket issues
Hello, Tony.
Tony Gravagno opined...
Clients need to know
DAVID WOLVERTON wrote:
I suspect she is writing a CLIENT socket service that
RUNS on the server -- one where I'm opening a socket to
get data from another service - and as any process could
be doing the same, I'd just want the next available
socket, please So I think the request is valid
