socket.recv

An issue with socket.recv is how to know when you are done receiving data. A TCP stream guarantees the bytes will not arrive out of order or be sent more than once. But you do not know the size of the data that will be sent to you. 100 bytes could be sent as group of 10 bytes or maybe in one shot. Ultimately, this means you have to use a loop in some fashion until you know it is done. The basic recv returns an empty String when the socket is disconnected. From that you can build a simple loop that will work as long as the Sender manages to Disconnect the socket at the appropriate time. However, there could be situations where a local error will mask as a clean shutdown or maybe a close() is never called.