Copying NetworkStream to MemoryStream takes infitity ∞ days

Question

I\'ve following code:

_clientRequestStream = _tcpClient.GetStream();

var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
_clientRequestStream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
         


        

Answer 1

TCP is a stream protocol. Bytes can flow at an arbitrary rate. Theoretically you could get one byte, then several seconds later 10 bytes, then several minutes later two bytes.

TCP is useless as a protocol in and of itself.

There must be a higher-order protocol whose structure allows for the detection of both the beginning and the end of a "message". We cannot guess at what higher-order protocol you are listening to, you have to know that in order to listen.