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Feature requests / TcpSocket::Avail()?
« on: March 09, 2012, 01:32:50 pm »
A method to check how many bytes of data are sitting in a TCP stream, waiting to be read.
My knowledge of TCP is a bit rusty: Is this one of those things that TCP "natively" supports? Are you able to, at any time, poll a TCP socket and find out how much data is sitting there, waiting to be read? Or is it one of those things that's dealt with on a far lower OS/hardware layer, and so the only way to implement it would be to create some kind of mid-layer buffer hodgepodge which would defeat the purpose of having the function in the first place?
My knowledge of TCP is a bit rusty: Is this one of those things that TCP "natively" supports? Are you able to, at any time, poll a TCP socket and find out how much data is sitting there, waiting to be read? Or is it one of those things that's dealt with on a far lower OS/hardware layer, and so the only way to implement it would be to create some kind of mid-layer buffer hodgepodge which would defeat the purpose of having the function in the first place?