On successfully creating the listening socket, I try to run a block of code on it that should maintain a persistent connection. Here is what I have done so far:
while(1) {
struct pollfd pfds[1];
pfds[0].fd = sockfd; // sockfd is my connection socket that I work on
pfds[0].events = POLLIN;
int num_events = poll(pfds, 1, 2000); // timeout 2 seconds
if (num_events == 0) {
printf("No data to read\n");
close(sockfd);
break;
} else {
// work with sockfd, recv() data from it and at the very end, do not close the connection
}
}
I am trying to test the above code with curl. I run curl hostname:portnum hostname:portnum (2 times, consecutively) and get the following behavior: curl gets the html page that I render inside the else-block immediately and waits for 2 seconds, after that it sends the other request. The desires behavior would be so that it sent the other request RIGHT after it sends the first one.
curl -v localhost:4390 localhost:4390
* Trying 127.0.0.1:4390...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 4390 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:4390
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: keep-alive
< Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end
<
<html>
Hello, world!
</html>
* Closing connection 0
* Hostname localhost was found in DNS cache
* Trying 127.0.0.1:4390...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 4390 (#1)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:4390
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: keep-alive
< Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
* no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end
<
<html>
Hello, world!
</html>
* Closing connection 1
The above is what I get now from curl. The desired behavior is this.
curl -v google.com google.com
* Trying 142.250.203.206:80...
* Connected to google.com (142.250.203.206) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: http://www.google.com/
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-V5HivFgCR5mSmZ20PuojOg' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp
< Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:54:11 GMT
< Expires: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:54:11 GMT
< Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
< Server: gws
< Content-Length: 219
< X-XSS-Protection: 0
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
<
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>
* Connection #0 to host google.com left intact
* Found bundle for host google.com: 0x5edef1e05010 [serially]
* Can not multiplex, even if we wanted to!
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host google.com
* Connected to google.com (142.250.203.206) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: http://www.google.com/
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-Junna8vFZULg3bC31jZ9NA' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp
< Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:54:11 GMT
< Expires: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:54:11 GMT
< Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
< Server: gws
< Content-Length: 219
< X-XSS-Protection: 0
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
<
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>
* Connection #0 to host google.com left intact
As you can see, Connection #0 to host google.com left intact.