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NodeJS: What is the proper way to handling TCP socket streams ? Which delimiter should I use?
From what I understood here, "V8 has a generational garbage collector. Moves objects aound randomly. Node can’t get a pointer to raw string data to write to socket." so I shouldn't store data that ...
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How do I frame messages for sending over TCP with node.js?
I need to send a JSON string to a number of TCP clients from a node.js TCP server.
In order to read the messages from the socket/stream on the client side I need to do some sort of message framing. ...
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NodeJS TCP Server, onData small chunks
I made a simple NodeJS TCP server which a Java Client sends an image:
encodedImage = <a base64 encoded image>
out.write("IMG;" + encodedImage);
out.flush();
My NodeJS server is as follows:
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Can you connect client to client via web sockets without touching the server?
I don't quite know how to search this in google:
"client to client websocket connections"
"browser to browser websockets"
"websockets without a server"
Haha, is there a way for someone on a ...
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When to use TCP and HTTP in node.js?
Stupid question, but just making sure here:
When should I use TCP over HTTP? Are there any examples where one is better than the other?
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How does setKeepAlive in node.js work and how to implement it?
Cannot understand the philosophy of setKeepAlive method in Node.js' net sockets. What happens after initialDelay finishes?
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Client side tcp with node.js/socket.io?
I'm new to node.js/socket.io so I don't really know what I'm doing, but I've got this for my server side:
var app = require('net')
, fs = require('fs')
var server = app.createServer(function ...
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TCP Servers: Drop Connection, instead of resetting or responding?
Is it possible in Node.JS to "drop" a connection in such a way that
The client never receives a response (200, 404 or otherwise)
The client is never notified that the connection is terminated (never ...
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cannot connect to TCP server on CloudFoundry (localhost node.js works fine)
I have trouble connecting to my TCP server example running on CloudFoundry. When running my app.js file on a local node.js installation, it works just fine. Specifically, when I run the CloudFoundry ...
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Node.JS on Solaris: Increase TCP's Initial Congestion Window to 10 segments (tcp slow-start)
How can the Initial Congestion Window be increased to 10? I read a suggestion that it can be done with TCP_INIT_CWND, but I don't know how to do that.
I originally posted this to ServerFault because ...
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How can a Node.js Socket Server know which IP or domain that the client connect to?
How can I know which IP/hostname the client connect to in node.js TCP Server?
var server = net.createServer(function (stream) {
// The server is behind a firewall,
// how can I know how the ...
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How to connect to tcp server via node.js/socket.io from client?
I've set up a tcp server using node.js/socket.io, but I can't figure out how to connect to it via the client side. I've tried the client code from http://socket.io/#how-to-use but it sends a http ...
