Re: ServerSockets - When Is It Closed/Not Connected?

Hal Vaughan wrote:
I have a ServerSocket that creates a Socket with ServerSocket.accept(). I
then read data from that Socket's InputStream. I'm sending data to it with
netcat. When I stop netcat,

Stopped, so netcat did send a FIN, or just aborted midway in a TCP connection?

This is the first to check. Did netcat initiate the closing of the connection? If not, your server side just doesn't know that one end of the connection is gone.

/Thomas
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