Hi Team Indy
I am trying to talk to another computer with a protocol that I cannot
change (I have to implement a client for it, but I have no control over
it).
The protocol calls for an intercharacter timeout. For example, if I am
expecting 100 bytes and there is more than 2 seconds between any two
bytes, I want a timeout exception.
However, an overall timeout would be close enough so as not to cause
any problems. I noticed a method called ReadFromSource which looks
like it will do what I want, but it is marked as protected. I would
like to call:
Connection.IOHandler.ReadBytes (100, 2000) and receive either 100
bytes; if they haven't arrived within 2000ms (or if the socket closes)
I should receive an exception. Perhaps I have missed it, (and you can
tell me to RTF*), but how would I achieve that?
Also, I am seeing intermittent GPFs (and I don't know if it is caused
by Indy or if it is caused by my code yet) about reading from address 0
with value 0 (perhaps a null pointer somewhere) but I am having
difficulty driving Delphi 6's debugger in a multithreaded application
as it keeps on switching threads on me -- but has anyone else seen this?
