Getting data out of a closing socket

[Per Bergqvist]

Hi Dolph,

which erl release and os are you using ?

/Per
(good to see that erlang is live and kicking in za)

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> Hi all,
> 
> I have a bit of a strange situation at hand. A socket in active,
packet
> mode:
> 
> {ok, Sock} = gen_tcp:connect(IP, Port, [list, {packet,
> 4},{active,true}]),
> 
> Basically, I send a request on the socket to the other side
> 
> gen_tcp:send(Sock,Datagram)
> 
> Decoding events from the socket like this [hiding some other
unimportant
> things like closing the socket etc]:
> 
> run(Sock) ->
>     receive
> 	What ->
> 	    io:format("Recv ~w\n",[What]),
> 	    run(Sock)    
>     after
> 	1000 ->
> 	    run(Sock)
>     end;
> 
> 
> So, 
> 
> I only get this from the socket:
> 
> Recv {tcp_closed,#Port<0.140>}
> 
> Looking at a packet trace on our firewall, I can see data arriving
> before the close. I would have expected two messages here, first the
> data and then the close. I have also tried coding this some routing
with
> a passive socket, same problem... Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rudolph
> 
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Per Bergqvist
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