This code reproduces the problem. I am not able to find why exception is thrown. I have removed error checking to make the code to read easier. Thanks, Lloyd class Connection:public boost::enable_shared_from_this<Connection> { public: Connection(boost::asio::io_service& ios):sock(ios) { } void Connect() { sock.connect(boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint(boost::asio::ip::address_v4::from_string("172.16.29.12"),13)); boost::asio::write(sock,boost::asio::buffer("RUN 1\r\n",7)); try { boost::asio::streambuf b; boost::asio::read(sock,b); } catch(exception& e) { cout< "End of file" } } private: boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket sock; }; class MainClass { public: void Connect() { boost::thread_group tg; tg.create_thread(boost::bind(&MainClass::Thread,this)); tg.join_all(); } void Thread() { boost::asio::io_service ios; boost::shared_ptr<Connection> asc=boost::shared_ptr<Connection>(new Connection(ios)); asc->Connect(); ios.run(); } }; int main() { MainClass mc; mc.Connect(); return 0; } On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Lloyd wrote:

Thanks Martin. The server sends back the data, I have checked it with wireshark. I am able to sniff and see the data.

This program is not using any complex protocol, it is simple "tcp" based text protocol. first of all am not able to read anything from the server.

One more thing I would like to add is the async_connect() is called from a thread, the io_service is also inside the thread. there are multiple treads like this. But I have tried removing the thread, that too does not mak any difference. I have also tried blocking connect(),write(), and read(), now also the read fails!

If this post is not clear, I am ready to post my code...

Thanks  Lloyd

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Martin Dyring-Andersen wrote:

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Hi Lloyd,

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I have an asio::ip::tcp::socket.  Whenever I try to read from it, it throws an exception "end of file". But it is possible to write to the socket at any time! This is a client side application, it connects to the server using asio::async_connect(). The server is sending back the data, I checked it with wireshark. I tried using the both async_read() and read(), in both cases it fails with the same error. But both async_write(), and write() works perfectly. What could be the reason?

You don't provide a lot of information about the protocol, but the behavior you are seeing might be the server shutting down the servers' sending side of the connection, like

sock.shutdown(boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket::shutdown_send, error);

which still will leave the client able to write() data to the socket. The client should be able to read the data sent from the server before the shutdown() though.

Just an idea.

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Thanks Igor. So I was debugging a problem that doesn't exist :( On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Igor R wrote:

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                       boost::asio::read(sock,b);                }                catch(exception& e)                {                        cout< "End of file"                }

So your peer sends some data and closes the socket. asio::read() reads this data, and then throws the exception. What behavior would you expect?

Please note that this is the *only* way this overload can complete. Otherwise, it would just block forever. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/read/over... _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users