Socket Question

[Grant Edwards]

On Wed, 30 May 2001 19:11:57 -0700, Daniel Klein <danielk at aracnet.com> wrote:

>Just when I thought I wouldn't have to learn something else... :-)
>
>I've been going thru the socket tutorial in Mark Lutz's PP2E
>(great book btw). It appears that the buffer limit for recving
>data is 1k.

What type of sockets are you using?  TCP? UDP?

>I tried recving more and it just truncates it. Is this a
>function of sockets in general or is there some setting I can
>tweak to force it to accept more?

If you're using UDP, you can't generally count on chunks larger
than 512 bytes working.  

If you're using TCP, the size of the chunks you read may vary.
You have to deal with the data stream being delivered in
whatever size chunks please the intervening software and
hardware (regardless of what size chunks with which it was
written).

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