Subj : Proxy Service Issues
To   : Drakmir
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 10:27 pm

  Re: Proxy Service Issues
  By: Drakmir to Digital Man on Fri Oct 07 2005 12:38 am

 >   Re: Proxy Service Issues
 >   By: Drakmir to Digital Man on Thu Oct 06 2005 11:25 pm
 > 
 >  >   Re: Proxy Service Issues
 >  >   By: Digital Man to Drakmir on Thu Oct 06 2005 07:44 pm
 >  >
 >  > I hadn't seen that one.  I'll take a look at it and see if it works for m
 >  > application.  :)
 >  >
 >  > That proxy is slow because I removed block read/write since I wasn't sure
 >  > was going wrong.  It was the simpliest example I could get to fail and no
 >  > down the computer with it.
 >  >
 >  > Thanks again!

 > So, I adapted socktest to read from client.socket instead of console, and fo
 > some reason it won't read the input.  I basically just changed the RAW mode
 > inkey for the same if logic above (client.socket.data_waiting).
 > 
 > Is there a socket option that has to be set or something?

Yes, you can't perform I/O on the client's socket descriptor while the BBS's
input thread is servicing the socking. You must set console.lock_input to true
before accessing the client's socket directly and set it to to false when
you're done.

                                                  digital man

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