[V4RB] Writing a simple server
jda
jda at his.com
Tue Feb 11 11:59:23 CST 2003
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>At the lower level TCP layers, a web server opens multiple listening
>streams on the specified port. This is the only way not to miss a
>request. Some browsers open multiple TCP streams to the same server
>to handle a request that has mixed content - e.g. text and images.
>If you are not listening on multiple streams, you are going to get
>errors on the browser side. I don't know anything about RB, but it
>sounds like the current socket class just opens one listening
>stream. Perhaps the new version will hide these low level details.
>
Yes, in RB 5 the new ServerSocket class opens multiple sockets on a
single port (you can specify the max and the minimum number). I think
that will do the trick.
Thanks (and thanks to Frank Bitterlich again) for the helpful information,
Jon
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