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Top Forums Programming C Socket Client/Server Fork Loop Post 302489887 by andylbh on Saturday 22nd of January 2011 07:38:54 AM
Old 01-22-2011
C Socket Client/Server Fork Loop
Hello people.

I'm trying to do something like a search engine.
Server runs in the background by using ./server & which has data from a textfile stored in an array.
Client then runs by using ./client
It will then prompt "Search for:"

For example, if I searched for Products called Instant Noodles
Server will return me result:
Product : Instant Noodle
Price : $10
If there's no such product, it will return "No such product"

I've already done it up to here.
Problem is, I want to make the client loop, after it finishes searching for a product, "Search for:" will appear again. The socket connection will only end when the user types in "end"
I can make it end by typing "end", but not the loop for search.
How can I do this?
I'm currently using the fork() command to handle multiple clients.

Thanks in advance.
 

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kinosearch1::search::searchclient

KinoSearch1::Search::SearchClient(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    KinoSearch1::Search::SearchClient(3pm)

Make a remote procedure call.  For every call that does not close/terminate the socket connection, expect a response back that's been serialized
using Storable.

NAME

       KinoSearch1::Search::SearchClient - connect to a remote SearchServer

SYNOPSIS

	   my $client = KinoSearch1::Search::SearchClient->new(
	       peer_address => 'searchserver1:7890',
	       password     => $pass,
	       analyzer     => $analyzer,
	   );
	   my $hits = $client->search( query => $query );

DESCRIPTION

       SearchClient is a subclass of KinoSearch1::Searcher which can be used to search an index on a remote machine made accessible via
       SearchServer.

METHODS

   new
       Constructor.  Takes hash-style params.

       o   peer_address - The name/IP and the port number which the client should attempt to connect to.

       o   password - Password to be supplied to the SearchServer when initializing socket connection.

       o   analyzer - An object belonging to a subclass of KinoSearch1::Analysis::Analyzer

LIMITATIONS

       Limiting search results with a QueryFilter is not yet supported.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2006-2010 Marvin Humphrey

LICENSE, DISCLAIMER, BUGS, etc.
       See KinoSearch1 version 1.00.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-11-15				    KinoSearch1::Search::SearchClient(3pm)
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