How to know when HTTPmessage has finished

[bclay1297@gmail.com]

Server and client are somewhat arbitrary. Perhaps I should word it this way, in the simple case the receiver knows the transmission is finished when the sender closes the socket (see Fortune Server Example). At its simplest HTTP operates that way. In practice though, network socket connections are kept open and the higher level protocol tracks the start and end of transactions.
I do not know which "http server example" you are referring to. There isn't one here. Can you provide a link?

Chris:

The server sample is at https://github.com/qt-labs/qthttpserver.

Since the app I am calling the clientdoes not seem to know when it has finished sending the file I cannot close from that end. I switched the server to use console mode and notices that QTcpSocket does not have a finished slot so that explains that end. the Server only gets the finished notification when the server sends back a status message.

Bruce

[ChrisW67]

QTcpSocket has a closed() signal, which the server can use to detected the other end closing the connection.

I assume the client and its behaviour is under your control. If you are not getting a finished() then there could be something wrong with the PUT or POST transaction and its payload. Are you getting an error signal?
What is going in mPostMsgData and how is it constructed?

Can you post a small, self-contained example that fails?

[bclay1297@gmail.com]

Chris:
I pushed a small test client up to https://gitlab.com/bclay/http-test-client. I left code segments in that should support https that relate to a previous problem I reported but that code is commented out. Once I see what is wrong here I would like to get back to that. It also is using the same qt lab httpserver

Bruce