Hello Monks,

Currently I am creating a client/server application. Whenever the client wants to finish his session, he has to logout by telling the server that in a special way. There could be some exceptions where the client does not logout correctly: i.e. The connection was forced to be cut by the provider for example, or the client just closed the connection without logging out correctly. My problem at this time: Is there a way to let the server know when a client does not logout correctly? Up to now I tried the following:
$client->close() unless (defined($client->peerhost()));
# I am working with IO::Socket::INET Objects.

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On my Debian 3.0 / Perl 5.6.1 machine this works fine ( I didn't think about performance up to now. )
I was very surprised to see that this doesn't work at all on Win32 systems and I want my application to be compatible with many operating systems.

Is there a better way to detect whether a client has cut off the connection?

Thanks in advance, Abroxa

In reply to Detecting disconnection from client using IO::Socket Objects. by Abroxa

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