soka. hmm. but... I tested this once; program did two HTTP requests, with one that closed the socket after it found what it wanted from response headers, other read it all through. The first one was faster, so I assumed that somehow killing the socket saved me time. Guess it was just coincidence, I didn't really repeat the test, it was only a side effect.

Now, forgive my ignorance on TCP issues (I did tutorial on it but it mostly dealed with ACK/SYN ping-pong), but how does it decide when to download, then? When I open a socket, I automatically start sucking in data to the buffer? So if I opened a socket to connection that would just keep feeding and feeding data, and left the socket alone, I'd get buffer overflow eventually?-)

In reply to RE: RE: RE: Re: reading from sockets by kaatunut
in thread reading from sockets by $CBAS

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