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| roofrack gary.roussak@tyrrellsystems.com From: Leigh, United Kingdom Posts: 23 Member Since: 06/08/06 |
posted April 15, 2014 7:22 AM I have a Dart TCP receiving an HTTP-formatted response from a third-party module written (by me) in Java. The response is sent back using the HttpServer class from the fairly well-known com.sun.net.httpserver package. Because both pieces of software are under my control, you will notice there's not much in the way of HTTP headers -- I don't think there needs to be. What's happening is that the Java code is returning a JSON-formatted response to a POST, along the following typical lines: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-type: application/json Content-length: 31 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:52:34 GMT {"tt":3,"tid":1,"v":"1","out":0} As you can see, the whole packet is only about 150 bytes. However, my Dart socket's receive() subroutine always gets called twice, once for everything upto the end of the last header, and once more for the response body (the JSON data). This happens EVERY time. Is this splitting of the packet by design on Dart's side ? Is there any way of guaranteeing only one complete self-contained receive() call for this typical size of data, or must I *always* look for a "Content-Length" header and search for that length of body data ? Thanks |
| Nick B (Admin) From: Utica, NY USA Posts: 619 Member Since: 05/25/10 Extra Support Options Custom Application Development |
posted April 15, 2014 9:11 AM Hello, This is not by design on Dart's side. For TCP communication in general, data is not guaranteed to be received all at the same time. This is the reason that length information such as the Content-length header is included in protocols built upon TCP. ------ |
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