Re: [hybi] Reliable message delivery (was Re: Technical feedback.)

["Thomson, Martin" <[e-mail]>]

> If A wants to close the connection it does the following:
> 
> 1) transmits 0xFF 0x00 to B.
> 2) Calls shutdown(SHUT_WR) on its socket (instead of close)
> 3) Reads anything else transmitted from B until it gets EOF, at which
> point it calls close().
> 
> When B receives 0xFF 0x00, it sends any remaining buffered messages and
> calls close.

Anne's described solution works better.

The 0xff00 frame is the indication that close() can be called safely.  Besides, it's two extra octets, hardly an imposition on either end.