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"DWilkinson" <dennis.c.wilkinson@boeing.com> wrote:
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>"Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:
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>>"DWilkinson" <dennis.c.wilkinson@boeing.com> wrote in message
>>news:4408c710$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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>>> My program is hanging on a socket read (
>>...IdTCPClient1->Socket->Recv(msg, 600); )
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>>You should not be calling Recv() directly.  Use the TIdTCPClient's own
>>ReadBuffer() method instead:
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>>    IdTCPClient1->ReadBuffer(msg, 600);
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>>Timeouts are handled at a higher level, but you are trying to access a
>>lower-level method.
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>>> despite having set the Readtimeout
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>>Recv() is not subject to the ReadTimeout.  That is why you should not be
>>calling the IOHandler's reading methods directly.
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>>
>>Gambit
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>The reason I was using Recv() rather than ReadBuffer() is that I get no response other than a time-out when I do. 
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>I assume the reason for this is that ReadBuffer() does not return until the read buffer has been filled. 
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>However, in my application, I don't know size of the incoming message beforehand, other than the maximums.
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>So how do I read variable length messages?
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>Your assistance is greatly appreciated!
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Also, incoming data has no terminator character, so I don't think I can use ReadLn() either. And IdAntiFreeze doesn't seem to do anything, as the application is hung until the timeout occurs when using ReadBuffer().

Again, thank you for your help.