Reliably detect broken internet socket

[kevinkk525 8]

When using the internet component or internet API I could not find a reliable way to detect a broken socket to an internet adress. Once the connection is broken by the external endpoint, the broken socket can only be detected by writing to the socket, not by reading.

This makes writing a good program very difficult as it would be impractical to send a ping every second just to detect if the socket is still alive.

Is there any possibility I did not see? Or is none implemented?

[BrisingrAerowing 12]

According to the Internet Component Documentation there is a method called finishConnect() that ensures a connection is active and errors if the connection failed.

[kevinkk525 8]

thanks. was worth a try. Sadly this function only works for connecting to a server.
 

but i found the solution: when reading the connected socket you get "" and if the socket is closed then  you get nil.
This way it should be reliable to get the connection status.

Seems like I did not test this enough before.