On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Manish <gill.manis...@gmail.com> wrote: > At first I thought to use the requests library to GET/POST data to node, but > I googled around and it seems lots of people think TCP sockets are the way to > go. I tried implementing my own using several examples I have found online. > It *kind of* works. It seems like I get blocked while trying to receive data > back in the recv() loop. I never reach the end. I'm not an expert in > sockets/networking, but maybe I'm not wrong in guessing it is because of the > non-blocking nature of Node.js ?
Do you need to use non-blocking sockets here? I think, from a quick skim of your code, that you'd do better with a blocking socket. Tip: Any time you have a sleep(1) call in your code, look to see if it's doing the wrong thing. In this case, I'm pretty sure it is. Sleeping for a second and then trying to read from a nonblocking socket seems like a messy way to just read until you have what you want. There's another thread happening at the moment about networking in Python. You may find it of interest. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
