sockets

[Ed Hilovsky]

Therein lies the problem. FP has "designated" a new way to count socket
connections. 
If there is a socket server and I connect to it, it shows one connection.
When I do a socketclose it shows 0 connections. 
Whatever logic you are using is beyond me.
Bottom line, look at what people are saying. The majority say FP is wrong in
the way they count socket connections.
Once I open a socket in filepro, you count that process that connect(ed).
Then even if I don't have an active socket open and connected, you are
counting it against the license. You say this as though all of us should
just understand that the socket license was always sold linked to fp
processes. Well, I never saw that. I was never give that interpretation. I
was just told the price and that I needed a development socket license also.
So, without a firm disclaimer about how FP counts, I use what the rest of
the world does. And the rest of the world doesn't link socket connections to
anything other than connect and socketclose. It's simple, connect to a
socket at a specific port and IP and when done do a socketclose.  
Period............... 

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Ed Hilovsky 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 12:46 PM
To: lgf at lgfcomputers.net
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: sockets

On 5/18/2012 12:20 PM, Ed Hilovsky wrote:
[...]
> So, say I purchase a 5 user socket license (oh and 1 development 
> socket license - whatever that is ) So, logically I have a 5 user 
> socket license that is independent of my runtimes, I read that as I 
> can have 5 socket connections open.

You read that wrong.  You can have 5 filePro processes using sockets. 
Whether each uses 1 or 50 is irrelevant.

[...]
> I've worked with server
> systems before that use sockets. When you issue a socketclose that 
> server drops the connections and de-increments the connected count. 
> So, why doesn't FP ?

Because filePro isn't counting the number of sockets.

Using your server example...  Nothing in filePro stops you from writing a
"server", and talking to 50 "clients" simultaneously, yet still uses only 1
license.

[...]

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Kenneth Brody