A socket question

[Robin Munn]

On 15 Jan 2002 15:13:20 GMT, Ng Pheng Siong <ngps at madcap.netmemetic.com> wrote:
>According to Robin Munn <rmunn at pobox.com>:
>> "exceptional conditions" (I don't know what constitutes an "exceptional
>> condition" on a TCP/IP socket; one of the RFC's should be able to tell
>> you). 
>
>OOB data. On the wire these will be TCP segments with the URG flag on.

Thanks! I've never written an application where out-of-band data was
necessary, so I didn't know that. Has anyone used this in practice? What
is it good for?

-- 
Robin Munn
rmunn at pobox.com