Question

I am designing a client server socket program using TCP/IP.

The server listens on a certain port, the client program makes 2 connections to the server. One is for command and response and the other is for streaming of data.

For the command and response, I can use the normal blocking socket mode to receive the client command and send the server response.

For the streaming data, the server would wait for the client to send a start stream command and begins continuous sending of data to that client. The issue now is I need the handler to also listen on this connection for the stop stream command. Hence, I was thinking of making this connection non-blocking so that the receive would not block followed by a non-blocking send.

Is this method of implementing the server and client handler efficient?

Answer 1

Take a look at Boost::asio socket management layer. It’s very well written.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/doc/html/boost_asio/tutorial/tutdaytime1.html