I have TCPListener server based on this source code https://gist.github.com/leandrosilva/656054#file-server-cs
I created a server on port 3340. Whenever a client connects to the server, then server waits for the new client connection. When I connect from my Chrome browser to the server, then it seems there are three clients connected (expected only one).
Why it is like that?
Most clients maintain multiple connections in parallel, including more than one connection per server endpoint.
And RFC7230 section-6.4 explains. Multiple connections are typically used to avoid the "head-of-line blocking" problem
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I'm a beginner to TCP client-server architecture. I am making a client-server application in C++ I need the server to be able to accept messages from multiple clients at once. I used this IBM example as my starter for the server
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The client side is irrelevant but this is my source client.
The problem is with the server side it allows multiple clients to connect but not asynchronously, so the server will connect with the second client after the first one finishes. I want the server to watch for messages from both clients.
I tried to read about select() on the Internet but I couldn't find anything to make the IBM code async. How can I edit the server code to allow the clients to connect and interact at the same time?
I have WebSocket implemented in a real-time application, where connected clients get all server updates without page refresh. That's fine and it's working very well. The problem is as follows:
Lets say I use two servers (server1 and server2) to serve client requests. If a client on server1 updates the database, all clients connected to server1 will get the updates, as expected, because server1 is aware of all connected clients. However, clients connected to server2 do not get any updates because they are being served by server2 who is not aware of the database updates (the updates were done by a client on server1)!
Is there a standard way of handling this? Also assume I have many servers.
If this has been addressed before, I'd also appreciate a pointer to it. Thanks
Handling the DB values, changes should be the responsibility of each instance connected to the DB. Whereas sharing updates (requires DB change or not)across various clients should be the responsibility of the handler. For websocket usually such updates are handles by writing it to a pub/sub channel/queue such as reddis and all instances subscribed to appropriate channel. Whenever any instance wants all clients to receive an update it puts it on that queue and all the instances are able to receive and broadcast it
A server, say for example an FTP server is listening on a port 21. Multiple clients can connect to it simultaneously and get ftp services asynchronously without being blocked.
My assumption is that the server has a separate thread to handle each client request. (Question: Does the new thread start negotiating new port with this client or continue using the same port (21) for data exchange ?)
my understanding is that the server uses a single port (21) to serve all the clients, including new connection requests.
if that is the case how does the server using a single port differentiates between clients and how does it delegate relevant data for each relevant thread ?
The same was as any other TCP/IP server.
Each client have a unique IP address and/or a port number.
The combination of client address and port and server address and port creates a virtual channel. The channel is used to exchange data between client and server software running on different machines. This is typically built into OS. The client and server software does not have to handle it specifically.
When we connect to socket.io, we have to define the server IP, or leave it blank if the files are hosted in the same server.
Each emit we fire, will be thrown on each socket connection.
If we have two applications on the same server,
all of the emits from app1 will be emitted in app2 and vice versa.
How to avoid this?
It depends upon what you mean by "two applications". If what you mean is two connections to the same socket.io server, then yes io.emit() is purposely designed to send to all connections to the current server.
If you have two separate socket.io servers on the same host, then those socket.io servers must be on separate ports (you can't have two actual servers on the same port) and when you io.emit() to one it will have nothing to do with the other because the io objects for the two servers will be completely different objects that are attached to completely different servers.
So, it really depends upon how you have things configured on the host. If you show your actual server-side code for your two servers, we could answer much more specifically.
If you just have one socket.io server and you're looking for ways to send a message to a group of connected sockets, you can either use namespaces or rooms. A namespace is something a client connects to. A room is something a server puts a connection into with .join(). You can then .emit() to either a namespace or a room and it will send to all sockets in that collection.
I am new to Websockets. While reading about websockets, I am not been able to find answers to some of my doubts. I would like if someone clarifies it.
Does websocket only broadcasts the data to all clients connected instead of sending to a particular client? Whatever example (mainly chat apps) I tried they sends data to all the clients. Is it possible to alter this?
How it works on clients located on NAT (behind router).
Since client server connection will always remain open, how will it affect server performance for large number of connections?
Since I want all my clients to get real time updates, it is required to connect all my clients to server, so how should I handele the client connection limit?
NOTE:- My client is not a Web browser but a desktop application.
No, websocket is not only for broadcasting. You send messages to specific clients, when you broadcast you just send the same message to all connected clients, but you can send different messages to different clients, for example a game session.
The clients connect to the server and initialise the connections, so NAT is not a problem.
It's good to use a scalable server, e.g. an event driven server (e.g. Node.js) that doesn't use a seperate thread for each connection, or an erlang server with lightweight processes (a good choice for a game server).
This should not be a problem if you use a good server OS (e.g. Linux), but may be a limitation if your server uses a desktop version of Windows (e.g. may be limited to 200 connections).