Flash client sends to Windows server - server hangs

[Ohmnivore]

In the Server.hx pump function, in the try block, in the while(true) block, the server receives an ever-lasting stream of zeros (from readByte()). This causes it to hang in the while loop. I guess it's because flash and native sockets behave differently, but I don't know enough about them to understand what's going in.

I'm more than willing to help solve this issue, I'm just really confused right now. Could you give me a few pointers about the differences between flash and native sockets?

[Ohmnivore]

On the plus side receiving messages from a windows server with a flash client works like a charm :)

[Ohmnivore]

Just clarifying, I'm sending a string using the Prefixed protocol. However this doesn't really matter, as while reading the socket input the data goes something like this:

(each character represents a byte)
0, 0, 0, 0, ...more zeroes, 0, 1, 3, 67, 78, 103, ...more data, 0, 0, 0, ...more zeroes

it never finished processing the first received message since it's stuck in the while loop, reading zeroes, and no exception is thrown

[Dvergar]

Thanks for reporting, this is related to #3 . What's weird is that i have several apps working with it and I don't get those issues so i'm not sure if that's a special case or a regression, in any case it probably needs more tests. I'll probably switch to a hxnet style buffering. Hoping for a commit later today.

[Ohmnivore]

Replacing the contents of the while block with the hxnet code below works perfectly, the pain is over. I haven't tested for cpp to cpp and the three other configurations though, but can confirm it fixes the flash(client) to cpp(server) issue. Overall flash client and cpp server case is working 10/10.

bytesReceived = socket.input.readBytes(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
// check that buffer was filled
if (bytesReceived > 0)
{
    protocol.dataReceived(new BytesInput(buffer, 0, bytesReceived));
}

(hxnet.tcp.Server.hx, lines 75-80)

[f-rank]

Could this solve #3 ?

[Ohmnivore]

I don't know, tbh I can't reproduce #3. What I thought was #3 at the time was actually this.