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how to check if a socket is still alive?

843790Jun 6 2006 — edited Jun 24 2006

Hi everybody,

I'm using a java.net.Socket and I'm unable to check wether or not the other site has closed the connection.
socket.isClosed() seems to only check if I have closed the connection, not the other one.
socket.isConnected() seems to check if there ever has been a connection.

I've searched for an answer, but I only found the suggestion to send dummy data and see if it throws an exception.

Has anybody got a better solution?

Thanks in advance!

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