EOF in async_read() in boost::asio

c++ boost-asio tcpclient
Jishnu U Nair picture Jishnu U Nair · Mar 8, 2013 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

When the async_read_some() returns an exception of EOF does it mean the server stopped sending data or does it mean the connection is closed. I'm having this confusion as I cant find a method to know if the client has received all data from server.

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Tanner Sansbury picture Tanner Sansbury · Mar 8, 2013

It indicates the connection has closed. Although documented elswhere it is still applicable:

An error code of boost::asio::error::eof indicates that the connection was closed by the peer.

If a client needs to know that all data has been received from the server, then consider supporting framing in the communication protocol. Boost.Asio provides higher-level operations to help make this easier. For example async_read_until() can be used on protocols where a certain set of characters are used to indicate the end of a message, and async_read() can be used for either fixed-length protocols or variable length protocols with a fixed length header.

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