Detecting remote socket disconnects?

[Joe[x86]]

I want to be able to set a boolean (bConnected) to true if the socket is disconnected. I asume this would be done easiest in my loop to receive data, but any other suggested places are also welcomed.

I don't know of any way to detect if the remote end of the socket has created a disconnect. I want to distroy finished threads (defined by the socket being closed), but its kinda hard to do if I don't know when its finished.

Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

[The-FooL]

Depends on how you implement your sockets.

[Joe[x86]]

I've got a socket listening, and constantly accepting connections, which are forked to a new handling class, with the socket passed in its constructor. What I want to do is loop through the classes (that's easy), and check if its still connected, and if not, set it = null.

[The-FooL]

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public SocketAddress getRemoteSocketAddress()

    Returns the address of the endpoint this socket is connected to, or null if it is unconnected.

Socket

[Joe[x86]]

Pssh. You rock. =)

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Eh, it still doesn't work. =(

EDIT -

a SocketAddress reprensenting the remote endpoint of this socket, or null if it is not connected yet.

Yeah, it only returns null if it hasn't been connected yet. Same as isConnected().

[Joe[x86]]

I've taken iago's suggestion of sending a keepalive packet, and if it errors on sending you've been disconnected.

[Warrior]

YOU LIAR I SUGGESTED THAT LIKE 4 DAYS AGO OMG.

[Joe[x86]]

iago suggested it five. G_G.