Socket error: 10053 software caused connection abort

[Jean-Pierre Bergamin]

Hi Irmen

>> I'm getting an error on Windows XP when I send big data chunks over
>> a socket connection. The exception I get is: "socket.error: (10053,
>> 'Software caused connection abort')"
>> This happens in the socket.recv function.
>
> I have the same error here, and it is NOT because of a bug in
> Windows' TCP stack. (even though the problem does not occur on Linux).
>
> The problem is in your code.
>
> You are receiving chunks of data like this:

> [....]

> But this code is flawed: recv() CAN return less than block_size,
> *even* if there is more data to be read on the socket.
>
> So, you should not check if the length of the received chunk
> is less than the length argument passed to recv().
>
> Instead, you should count the total number of bytes you
> received and check that with the expected total amount.

But how can I know the amout of data I will receive? There's no way to do
that, since it's totally random how large the sent data will be.

Could you show me how you did it?


Thanks

James