LUBE (Networking Library)

[Robin]

Yes..

Then who does the beta-testing?

[bartbes]

Sparx once said he didn't mind doing it.. but I didn't think of it when I wanted to release the new version.

[bartbes]

No new version this time, I just wanted to say I added luadoc to my copy, so hopefully you will all have more up to date docs next version. I'm currently searching for a wiki 'doclet', but I can't seem to find any doclets at all.

[Matkins]

I've been using 0.5 a lot sinse you released it. I don't have any problems with it, nice work.

There's just something that I don't fully understand, and I wondered if you did...
When i establish a connection between client and server and send data one way, from server to client, then client disconnects after a second. This doesn't happen if I also have the client sending data back to the server. Is this normal? What should I do to prevent the Client disconnecting when there's no data for the Client to return.

[bartbes]

I don't know, might be ping if enabled, otherwise, are you using handshakes?

[Matkins]

I've got:

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lube.server:setPing(true, 3, "ping")
lube.server:setHandshake("Hi")

and

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lube.client:setPing(true, 3, "ping")
lube.client:setHandshake("Hi")

in their respective load functions. Is that all there is to it? Or do i have to send "Hi" using lube.send myself?

[bartbes]

In this case, could it be possible that it is 3 seconds after which the client is disconnected?
And, are you using lube.server:checkPing(dt) and lube.client:doPing(dt)? (yes, I should merge them with update once, among some other things: next version)
If this still leaves you with the problem, what happens when you disable ping?

And no, you don't have to send Hi yourself.

[Matkins]

Disabling ping solves the problem. I don't really know but maybe pinging plus lots of data simultaneously is just too much? Anyway, it works now, thanks for your help.

[bartbes]

Or maybe they just were desynchronized, in a way that the server expected a ping 1 sec after connecting, while the client was only sending one after 3 secs, I had some problems with Netris as well, eventually the server was set to 15 seconds and the client to 5.

[Matkins]

If i've got ping disabled then the disconect callback wont happen will it? So i've got to use ping because i need the disconect callback.
But when using ping I have noticed something that seems strange to me;
if using ping and the server is sending lots of data and the client is not sending any data, then the disconect callback gets called but the client is not actually disconnected because it can still send data. i've seen the server receive data from a supposedly disconnected client. Is that odd? Or is that expected beings as its an unwanted diconect callback to begin with?