On 26 May, 10:46 pm, djimenez@unipost.es wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to write a typical chat server application with twisted. At this moment, all is working fine except for some strange behaviour with sendLine and connectionLost funcs. Let me explain the problem:
- I have a server on the internet. - I connect two PCs (2 clients) from the same LAN through a router to that server - All is working fine until I disconnect the LAN of one of those PC (The client is disconnected but the server doesn't know about it). Just to test a typical wireless disconnection without closing sockets, etc... - After disconnecting I try to send some messages through the remaining clients to all clients through this function:
def sendMessageToAllClients(self, mesg,reqClient): for client in self.clientProtocols: dataLength = str(len(mesg)) if (len(dataLength) < 8): dif = 8 - len(dataLength) dataLength = "0"*dif + dataLength print "Enviando a:",str(client) client.sendLine(dataLength+mesg) client.clearLineBuffer()
You shouldn't be calling `client.clearLineBuffer()` here.
As you can see, I send a message to all clients, including the one disconnected because the server doesn't know at this moment that the client is "out". I'm able to send 6 or 7 messages to the remaining client but after that, the connection get lost. I would expect to have a connectionLost with the client offline but actually I got a connectionLost in both clients and I don't know why. The server disconnect both clients with "non clean fashion".
Any help or advice would be highly appreciated.
This is how TCP works. If the remote host stops responding to packets, then there's a period of time where the connection still appears to be up anyway. After a TCP-level timer expires, the connection is considered lost. Jean-Paul