Question

I have a client connecting to as server (TCP) and polling data. Whenever the connection drops, i need to reboot the client.

I would like to know if there is any proxy that could be installed on the client computer (windows) that would keep that socket open even tho the connection drops on the other side?

The client itself is not able to automatically bring the connection back on. That’s why I am thinking of a middleware that could bring it up on its side:

    client ---> middleware ---> server   <- Normal operation

    client ---> middleware -/-> server   <- External failure

    client ---> middleware ---> server   <- We get back up

There would be no need to reboot the client everytime.

Thank’s,

Answer 1

Rebooting the client is overkill. Have the client connect to the server and then send/receive data. If the send or receive fails, check the error and close/open the connection to the server and re-send/re-receive.

Simple 🙂