Hello, I have a little client-server application using tcp sockets. On both sides I use a buffer size of 4096 and I run all my tests with the client and server on the same machine, using address 127.0.0.1. Everything is going well except that now I suddenly need to send much larger messages. A message could now easily be 12MB in size. Now, what happens is that the transmission is incomplete : on the receiving end, I only get a chunk of the message instead of the whole thing.
I thought about simply increasing the buffer sizes on both ends to something larger than my maximum message size, but I'm not sure that's a reliable method, even if it works, and I'm not sure it'll work (if it's supported by TCP, if I won't run out of memory, etc.).
I also thought about splitting the message and actually my sending code automatically does that already, it will keep sending until all the data has been sent. However, on the receiving end, how do I know where a message ends, do I need to implement a protocol for that? I thought TCP already took care of that.
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Hello, I have a little client-server application using tcp sockets. On both sides I use a buffer size of 4096 and I run all my tests with the client and server on the same machine, using address 127.0.0.1. Everything is going well except that now I suddenly need to send much larger messages. A message could now easily be 12MB in size. Now, what happens is that the transmission is incomplete : on the receiving end, I only get a chunk of the message instead of the whole thing.
I thought about simply increasing the buffer sizes on both ends to something larger than my maximum message size, but I'm not sure that's a reliable method, even if it works, and I'm not sure it'll work (if it's supported by TCP, if I won't run out of memory, etc.).
I also thought about splitting the message and actually my sending code automatically does that already, it will keep sending until all the data has been sent. However, on the receiving end, how do I know where a message ends, do I need to implement a protocol for that? I thought TCP already took care of that.
Anyway I'm a bit lost there, thanks for any tips.
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