how to set the timeout for the socket?

OZApps · January 2013

there is a

settimeout

function for the

socket.tcp

portion of things, how do you set the timeout for the socket object? specially since it is blocking and when you use

connect

and the host is unavailable?

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

@OZApps not really get what you mean by socket object, but something from this might help
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Using-LuaSocket-in-Gideros

With connecting I dunno if it would change anything if you set timeout before connecting?

OZApps · January 2013

if you were to use

socket.connect("nonexistanthost", 80)

since the code is blocking, it might never return for a host that it cannot reach. The timeout setting can be set when using the socket.tcp functions for a server/client type setting.

So if you have

socket.connect("www.gideromobile.com", 80)

and

socket.connect("not.valid.com",80)

the first part will return but the connection to the not.valid would take an arbitrary time before it returns (if it does).

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

socket.connect is basically a shorthand for creating a TCP client object connected to a remote host.

So maybe not using a shorthand could help as:

--first create tcp instance
local tcp = socket.tcp()
 
--set time out
tcp:settimeout(0)
 
--then connect it to server
tcp:connect("nonexistanthost", 80)

But haven't tried that

OZApps · January 2013

thanks, but it did not work for me.

BJG · January 2013

(Don't suppose this is any help...?)

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=11182.0

OZApps · January 2013

It did not work for me earlier as I was not considering it with the tcp communication and relying on the returned handle. The timeout works perfectly fine now.

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