Re: [asio-users] basic_stream_socket::async_connect -- non-blockingconnect vs async connect

[Christopher K. <ch...@ko...>]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:23:07 +0100, "Chauhan, Vikas"
<Vik...@an...> said:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I was not sure that blocking connect and
> async_connect would take the same time to connect(or fail to connect).
> This would mean that I cannot reconnect in less that 21 seconds (as
> typically this is the delay, when peer server is not alive).
> 
> However, I want my client socket to reconnect to server socket in less
> that 5 seconds after server is alive. Do you think I can do that using
> boost asio sockets?

You probably want to combine your async_connect with an async_wait on a
deadline_timer. If the timer expires before the connect completes, you
should close the socket and try again.

Cheers,
Chris