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Learning Network Programming with Java
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Learning Network Programming with Java

by Richard M Reese
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Controlling socket options

The underlying socket implementation for the socket classes can be configured. The options available are dependent on the socket type. Frequently, the actual mechanism used to support an option is OS-specific. Also, sometimes the option is just a hint to the underlying implementation.

The options available for each socket class shown next is adapted from the Java API documentation:

Class

Option name

Description

SocketChannel

SO_SNDBUF

This is the size of the socket send buffer

SO_RCVBUF

This is the size of the socket receive buffer

SO_KEEPALIVE

This keeps the connection alive

SO_REUSEADDR

This re-uses the address

SO_LINGER

This lingers on close if data is present (when configured in blocking mode ...

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