Re: [Boost-users] How to get the port number and the address of a boost::asio::ip::tcp:acceptor object

From: Jonathan Biggar (jon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-07 15:24:09

Jean-Sebastien Stoezel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the quick answer. By port number and ip address of an
> acceptor" I mean the address and the port of the ip interface the
> acceptor is listening on.
> In most of the case I've worked on, I used the specify the port I
> wanted to listen on, though for this special case, I do not want the
> acceptor to specify a port number.
> 
> Then when I do:
> 
> boost::asio::ip::tcp::acceptor acceptor(m_IoService);
> 
> when I call
> 
> boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint endpoint = acceptor.local_endpoint();
> 
> I get an exception as follow:
> "The file handle supplied is not valid"
> 
> I need to know the ip address and the port number fo the acceptor
> before calling the accept method.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Try this:

boost:;asio::ip:tcp:;acceptor	acceptor(m_IOService);

acceptor.listen();

boost::asio::ip::tcp::endpoint endpoint = acceptor.local_endpoint();

I pulled this from code I have that works.  You probably forgot to call 
listen() first.

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Jon Biggar
Floorboard Software
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