Sockets and Multiple-connection servers

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Mar 12 03:22:31 UTC 2002


>Somewhat a newbie question, somewhat a design question... is there any
>easy way to simply open a server on a port and have it return a Socket
>object for each new connection, each of which can be then be passed on
>to a separate thread for handling as it continues to wait for new
>connections (similar to popular models in Java or MFC Sockets)? Is
>there a good reason not to use this model?
>
>I'm not terribly fond of the server-is-either-connected-or-isn't,
>one-client idea that seems to be used in the Socket class, just
>because I think it's not (or no longer) what most servers do. Unless
>I'm misunderstanding how it works, in which case I'd much appreciate
>being flamed and corrected. :-)
>
>--
>Derrick Coetzee

I've some example server code here

http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/html/OTNotes3.html

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