How do I cleanly reconnect a boost::socket following a disconnect?

Question

My client application uses a boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket to connect to a remote server. If the app loses connection to this server (e.g. due to the server cras

Answer 1

I have tried both the close() method and the shutdown method and they are just to tricky for me. Close() can throw an error that you need to catch and is the rude way to do what you want :) and shutdown() seems to be best but on multithreaded software, I find it can be fussy. So the best way is, as Sam said, to let it go out of scope. If the socket is a member of the class you can 1) redesign so that the class uses a 'connection' object to wrap the socket and let it go out of scope or 2) wrap it in a smart pointer and reset the smart pointer. If you using boost, including the shared_ptr is cheap and works like a charm. Never had a socket clean up issue doing it with a shared_ptr. Just my experience.