[erlang-questions] How does Erlang TCP determine the end of a TCP stream?

[Vimal Kumar]

Hi,

I believe you are using with the inet:setopts/2 'active' option set to
true? Set it to false or once and then use gen_tcp:recv/2,3 to read from
tcp stream upto the length you want.

http://erlang.org/doc/man/inet.html#setopts-2

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 8:11 PM, code wiget <codewiget95@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> From my understanding, tcp is a stream based protocol, and you can’t
> really tell one packet from another. You can make sure the packets arrive
> in order, but whether or not they should be “grouped” is not seen by the
> application layer.
>
> But somehow Erlang ssl and tcp abstract this away.
>
> In my code, I have some sort of the following:
>
> Handle_info({tcp/ssl, Sock, Data}, State) -> … and every time that I
> receive data into the socket, it comes as the “full package”, meaning that
> when another server sends a message to it over the socket, It is received
> as the full length of the packet every time with no extra bytes here or
> there. On the other hand, a co-worker’s server has to implement socket
> reads and can’t determine one “group” from another. They have to read in
> the length or set delimiters.
>
>
> What is special about OTP that delimits these packets?
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