Hi everyone,
I have made a program that will connect to a server and download the webpage from it using the GET method. I am using this program to constantly monitor updates on some specific webpages, and I will probably be using thread to handle multiple sites.
Anyway, the problem I am having is, for some websites, when I try to recv() the html, it will receive all of it but then at the end just hang for a while (maybe 7-10 seconds).
For example, on the website Netgear.com, I will receive the last line "</body>" and then it will pause there for about 5-6 seconds then exit. Actually this website just hangs forever!
On other hand, if I try something like Linux.com | The source for Linux information, it will work (the last two lines are "</html>\n" and a "0\n") with no hanging at all.
I want to have it such that it never waits for more than 1-2 seconds.
So I tried following:
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insert
Code:
struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 3;
tv.tv_usec = 0;
setsockopt(sd,SOL_SOCKET,SO_RCVTIMEO,&tv,sizeof(tv));
while (recv(sd, &str_buffer, 1, 0))
{
...copy webpage
}
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but it didnt work. the same hanging still occured I got that above example of a timeout from the unix network programming book by stevens.
Does anyone know whats wrong with my code? Or any other method besides SELECT()?
I don't want to use select() since i feel it will make the handling of threads more difficult for me. I have searched on the web for ages and its always SELECT(), alarm with signal (not good for threads i hear) or this setsockopt option.
Thanks guys, your help is much appreciated!