Read Socket data on data, not return

ecuguru has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been ripping off some terrificly straightforward code on multithreaded servers from Brian Slesinsky here .
The code snippet that I'm playing with is this:
$socket->recv($line,10); Anyone know how I can make that line of code move on based on buffer size rather then waiting for the carriage return? Or any other way of looking at the data without needing to wait for a carriage return?

So when I make a socket connection to the server, I have to make a carriage return to get the next line moving. I'm playing with a socket that will only send data and no carriage returns, and I don't see any of the data until the device disconnects <no good>..

And although I understand the second integer parameter to be the max size of the line, I don't understand what affect it has on the code. I changed it to 5 bytes, thinking perhaps it was a length interrupt and I could check it that way. But changing the value didn't seem to do anything.

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Re: Read Socket data on data, not return by steves (Curate) on Dec 22, 2004 at 09:40 UTC
It seems more likely that the server you're connecting to is not actually sending the data until a carriage return is issued there. In other words, no matter how your client tries to read the data, it can only get anything if the server has actually written a packet to the socket. Depending on how the socket is being used in the server, the data may be buffered and may not actually be written to the underlying socket until a carriage return is issued. Can you post some example server code?	[reply]
Re^2: Read Socket data on data, not return by ecuguru (Monk) on Dec 23, 2004 at 02:40 UTC
The entire server working code is in the first link: here I'm only using telnet as the client, which is sending in every character. client = telnet localhost 2323 thanks!!	[reply]
Re^3: Read Socket data on data, not return by steves (Curate) on Dec 27, 2004 at 02:00 UTC
Does your local telnet client tell you it's operating in character and not line mode? telnet can operate in either. I find that when I connect to non-telnet servers, my telnet client is in line mode, which would explain why your server is "waiting" for newlines -- it's actually only seeing full lines from the client, not characters. To see your telnet client's current mode, escape into telnet command mode and issue the status command.	[reply]

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