Java Socket fast reconnect

Question

I am facing a little problem with sockets.

This method takes about 100ms or even more, depends on the server. socket.connect(dest);

Then I am communicating through DataInput/Output streams to a sofisticated software, so there is query phase, handshake phase, login request phase etc.

Is there any way I can "reset" the datastream from handshake phase so the server forgets everything and the socket would be again in the first phase without doing socket.connect(dest); again ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

这完全取决于协议，与套接字本身无关。

Answer 2

There is nothing stopping you from passing as many messages back and forth through a socket; except maybe your protocol (or the lack of a clearly defined one) if it doesn't indicate where a message starts/ends.

When using a DataInput/OutputStream you could just define a Message class containing whatever data and both sides would just run in an infinite loop reading a Message, processing and possibly generating a response message.