[Boost-users] Help needed to reconnect a socket to a new endpoint with Boost asio in Windows

Subject: [Boost-users] Help needed to reconnect a socket to a new endpoint with Boost asio in Windows
From: Adolfo Jimenez (adolfojmillan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-06 13:28:39

I'm having trouble when in Windows XP, try to connect a socket to an
endpoint after being connected to another.

This is the situation:

a) The boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket is connected to a remote host (say
pop.remote1.com).

b) The transmission ends, and the socket is closed:

     socket_.shutdown(boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket::shutdown_both, error);
     socket_.close(error);

Then, when trying to connect to another host (say pop.remote2.com) using the
same process that in a), the proccess returns without error, but the socket
remains closed.

Note that when using pop.remote2.com as the first connection, the things run
Ok, and the same problem arises if try to connect to pop.remote1.com after
closing.

In both situations there are not pending processes in the attached
io_service.

I tried to open the socket before the reconnection, but the result remains
the same. That is, the result is the same if after closing the previous
connection with.

     socket_.shutdown(...);
     socket_.close(...);

is used

     socket_.open(...);
     socket_.async_connect( ... );

or just

     socket_.async_connect( ... );

The questions are:

Is that reconnection admissible?

Is that the supposed correct process?

Thanks in advance.