Simple TCP Server

Table of Contents

• Recognized Requests
• Unsolicited Requests

Starts a text based TCP server on a designated port on all interfaces and provides the following:

• Every conection is serviced on a dedicated thread.

• Periodically sends a message to a client and expects the client provide a response, see Unsolicited Requests for more information.

• Accepts client requests in the form of KEY:VALUE, see Recognized Requests for more information.

• Client requests are provided with a response of the form KEY:VALUE.

Recognized Requests

• 0820 will result in a response 0830:time=DATETIME where DATETIME will be the date time stamp of the server.

Unsolicited Requests

This is the server sending a request to a client. The client is expected to provide a response.

Every 5 seconds the server will send a message:

• 0120:timee=TIMESTAMP where TIMESTAMP will be the current date, time and time zone of the server.