Winsock Help........ may be its tricky...

[_RaJ_]

i am receiving data from winsock.getdata sdata

the arrival data is big & comes in part by part that causes dataarrival event to fire more than 1 time........ how can i get whole data once & fire the arrival event once..

even with winsock.peekdata the event is fired more than 1 time..

??

thnx in adv

[Chris001]

That's how Winsock works. You can't receive large amounts of data at once. The DataArrival event fires multiple times with small chunks of data of a few kilobytes in size. You will have to buffer the incoming data and check if everything has been received.

This is a very basic example.

Private sBuffer As String
 
Private Sub Winsock_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
    Dim sData As String
 
    Winsock.GetData sData, vbString 'get data
 
    sBuffer = sBuffer & sData 'buffer data
 
    If InStr(1, sBuffer, "<end of data>") Then 'look for the end of the data
    
        'all data has been received
    
    End If
End Sub