The following code crashes at the connector boost::asio::connect(s, iterator);
with the output:
before connector:
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Process returned 3 (0x3) execution time : 1.281 s
Press any key to continue.
I don't have a server running at port 4001 with the localhost connected and I wondered if there is a way to prevent this crash from occurring in case the server isn't running for some reason yet the client can still run the software somewhat. In other words is there a way to see if a server exists without crashing the program?
Heres the code
//
// blocking_tcp_echo_client.cpp
// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
//
// Copyright (c) 2003-2012 Christopher M. Kohlhoff (chris at kohlhoff dot com)
//
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
//
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
using boost::asio::ip::tcp;
enum { max_length = 1024 };
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
//try
// {
//if (argc != 3)
//{
// std::cerr << "Usage: blocking_tcp_echo_client <host> <port>\n";
// return 1;
//}
boost::asio::io_service io_service;
tcp::resolver resolver(io_service);
//tcp::resolver::query query(tcp::v4(), argv[1], argv[2]);
tcp::resolver::query query(tcp::v4(), "127.0.0.1", "4001");
tcp::resolver::iterator iterator = resolver.resolve(query);
tcp::socket s(io_service);
std::cout << "before connector: ";
boost::asio::connect(s, iterator);
std::cout << "after connector: ";
using namespace std; // For strlen.
std::cout << "Enter message: ";
char request[max_length];
std::cin.getline(request, max_length);
size_t request_length = strlen(request);
boost::asio::write(s, boost::asio::buffer(request, request_length));
char reply[max_length];
size_t reply_length = boost::asio::read(s,
boost::asio::buffer(reply, request_length));
std::cout << "Reply is: ";
std::cout.write(reply, reply_length);
std::cout << "\n";
//}
//catch (std::exception& e)
//{
// std::cerr << "Exception: " << e.what() << "\n";
//}
return 0;
}