When you press Start button the program creates a socket binding to the selected port and places it in a state in which it is listening for an incoming connection.
Detecting a client, the server permits incoming connection, obtains the handle to a new socket, and receives incoming data if any.
After pressing the Stop button sometimes you have to wait 2-3 seconds for the server to stop. Several DOEVENT commands are inserted into server cycle.
The server processes requests from clients. That means you need a Winsock client program to communicate with the server.
Run the client part for this server on any other computer connected to your network, or even on the same computer, which runs the Winsock server. A client program initiates a network connection using IP address and listening port of the server.
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You may even connect to the non-blocking Winsock server through the Internet. Make sure you connect to the public ip address of the server, not the one it has inside the local network. As well the port on the server has to be configured to accept external connections.
To test a connection to the non-blocking server through the Internet, first I stopped the IIS running on a computer on our LAN (after working hours, of course :). So I could use for the testing ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (SSL) on that computer, which for sure were properly configured for accepting external connections. Then I launched a VNC connection to start the client part on a remote computer. I was able to connect to the server on each of two ports.
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Feb.28, 2005: Note that once the server connects to a remote client and processes a request, all other clients are not able to connect during that short time because nobody is listening.
A robust Winsock server actually should create a thread for each new connection or use a pool of, say, 10 threads to serve connections. This kind of functionality can not be programmed using just FoxPro code.
Say : A robust Winsock server actually should create a thread for each new connection or use a pool of, say, 10 threads to serve connections. This kind of functionality can not be programmed using just FoxPro code.
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