Socket.send

[Regan Heath]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:20:32 +0100, Andrea Fontana <advmail at katamail.com>  
wrote:

> It's a small server (http) so I don't wait for any reply from the
> client. If there's an header "connection: close", server should
> close connection when data is sent.
>
> So on server side i should write:
>
> if (httpRequest.isCompleted)
> {
>    // Parsing request headers
>    [... omitted ...]
>    // Build http reply
>    [... omitted ...]
>
>    socket.send(reply);
>    socket.shutdown(SocketShutdown.BOTH);
> }
>
>
> and then wait for client to close connection?

Almost.  If the client sends additional data which you do not read above,  
then shutdown(BOTH) may cause a "connection aborted" error on the client  
end.  Ideally you want to shutdown(SEND) only, then loop reading all  
remaining data from the socket (until receive returns 0), then call  
close().

I've just looked at std.socket and I can't see a nice easy way to call  
select on just the one/current socket.. I was expecting  
socket.select(READ|WRITE|EXCEPT) helper functions or similar :(

R

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