Re: Trouble with "Web server and client"
- Posted by pampeano at ROCKETMAIL.COM Aug 02, 2001
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What the read function does? Maybe that's the clue Best Regards, Guillermo BonvehĂ --- Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> wrote: > > I am having some trouble with Pete Eberlein's "Web server and client" > for > Linux (http://www.rapideuphoria.com/webutils.zip). > > Since the code is just socket communications, it need not be used > only for > web access. Just change the port to 21 for telnet, 143 for imap, > etc., and > you should be able to communicate, right? > > That's what I thought, but I've run into a stumbling block. > > Take a look at Pete's sample code, which works fine: > data = allocate(1) > while 1 = c_func(read, {i, data, 1}) do > reply &= peek(data) > end while > free(data) > > Now take a look at mine, which gets stuck for some reason: > data=allocate(1) > while 1 = c_func(read, {session, data, 1}) do > reply &= peek(data) > end while > free(data) > > So I put in a couple lines to see what it being read: > puts(1,sprintf("%s:%d-",{reply[length(reply)], > reply[length(reply)]})) > > I am running this with trace on, by the way. In both cases, the last > > characters read are a 13 then a 10. But with Pete's code, the while > loop > gets exited, while with mine, it just gets stuck; the cursor stays on > the > 'end while' line and won't budge. > > I am accessing Port 143 (IMAP), as opposed to 80 (http), but other > than > that, there isn't any difference. > > Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I just don't see why my code > hangs on > the while loop. He has i declared as an integer, and data as an > atom, > while have session as an integer, and data as an atom. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ted Fines > Macalester College > > > > >