One of the requirements I set myself for my Socket library was that it should be as robust as possible about knowing that the other end of a connection had gone away. The .net socket objects are pretty bad for this, and the only way to be certain that the connection is up is to attempt to read or write its data stream. Continue reading “Linux and Xamarin socket problems”
Tag: Sockets
Fun with Sockets
Actually, not fun at all. This problem has been driving me nuts for hours.
There are some things I like about .net socket programming, but one thing that always causes horrible problems is shutting sockets down when I’ve finished with them. One way or another, I always end up having to trap some exceptions. Continue reading “Fun with Sockets”