Socket Disconnect

[txdv]

Is there a way to disconnect a Socket manually? I am porting smartirc4net to manos and I see that Close() disposes the socket alltogether.

[ghost]

In what way "disconnect manually"? Closing a socket, but keeping the Socket object in usable state does not make much sense.

[txdv]

Well, so I have to close it and create a new one then, right?

Could you explain, why it doesn't?

[ghost]

I don't think i fully understand your question. If you close a socket, it's closed. Gone. Useless. No matter by what means it was closed. What do you even mean by "disconnect manually"?

[txdv]

something like System.Net.Sockets.Socket::Disconnect(bool reuseSocket)

[ghost]

Ah, now I understand. No, there is currently no way to do that, and I don't think one will be added. The classes in Manos.IO are not intended to be very smart - one socket, one underlying kernel object. You could derive Manos.IO.Socket and emulate the reusable thing, of course.

[txdv]

Another question:

HttpServer takes Context and a Socket into it's constructor. Isn't it kinda redundant? When I think of wrapping an IrcConnection with these manos sockets, I would use only the Context so I could use it to recreate sockets on reconnect and stuff like that.

[ghost]

One could pass a listening port instead, that's correct. Perhaps that'll change in later versions. As for your second question, yes.

[txdv]

I'm writing a Socks4Socket class now, it would be possible to easily use it in HttpServer if the class actually would have a socket in their constructor.

But this leads to another problem, it is not possible to recreate a stream class only with an instance of an stream, which will be useful for socks5, or other prefixed packets.

[ghost]

You mean a wrapper stream? Of course that's possible, there's just no class that does it yet. Or am I misunderstanding?

[txdv]

Not by deriving, but by using an instance of another socket or stream.

[ghost]

I don't understand the problem you are having. If you want a stream that proxies calls to an (interchangeable) base stream, create one.

[txdv]

When I derive from Stream, I have to override WriteByteBuffer, I don't know how I am supposed to do that with just the instance of another Stream

namespace Manos.Awesomeness
{
    public class ProxyStream : Stream
    {
        public Stream Stream { get; set; }
        public ProxyStream(Stream stream)
        {
            Stream = stream;
        }

        public override void Close()
        {
            Stream.Close();
        }

        public override TimeSpan WriteTimeout {
            get {
                return Stream.WriteTimeout;
            }
            set {
                Stream.WriteTimeout = value;
            }
        }

        // Some other methods

        protected int WriteSingleBuffer(ByteBuffer buffer)
        {
        }
}

[ghost]

Throw some exception. Everything public should be forwarded to the underlying stream, everything nonpublic will then never be called.