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Hi,
I'm converting socket reading program written in delphi into livecode using following syntax.

read from socket for read_bytes chars with message 'pkt_read'

When read_bytes is less than 20k there's no delay reading socket data.
But when read_bytes is about 35k the livecode program waits about 5 or more seconds to read socket data.
And at that moment, livecode sends lots of socketTimeout event. I set socketTimeoutInterval to 1000.
And on server side, sending program also waits to flush.
This means livecode program doesn't clear socket buffer after a read.
( I made test delphi program for this. When client doen't read socket buffer, server program waits for some time to flush )

Is there a way to set socket buffer size ?
Or is this a bug which is to be fixed ?

A message from 2005, with (apparently) the same issue (LiveCode list)

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-l ... 52864.html

Which version of LiveCode do you use ?

note that socket timeout is sent periodically, and has nothing to do with actual timing out or not. Basically if there's no traffik, socket timeout is to be expected.

That's a *very* short timeout interval. You will probably want to increase it to something more than one second. 35k bytes is a lot of packets - no doubt you're hitting timeouts before getting to the end.

Thanks for the replies.

I'm using Livecode 4.6.
And I know timeout is natural for socket handleing but in my case it takse to much time to read data.
And in case of delphi program it's a snap to read whole packet.
As I said before, when timeout happens, on server side sending program cannot flush socket buffer becase of client side buffer is not cleared.