Should I save stream for future messages or dial every time?

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Hi.

In the examples both nodes are on the same file and 2nd node is added to addressbook (the addressbook is never used again) and a single message is send to the node via the stream after a dialProtcol call.

So how should I make it to send several messages to the nodes?

  1. keep the stream of each node from a single dialProtocol call or
  2. Call dialProtocol for each message I need to send?

Thanks.

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It’s sad to see this hasn’t been answered. Could depend on library, protocol, and use case. Though I hate it when ppl ask questions about what I’m doing instead of telling me what I should be doing, it’s about all I can do on this one. I just don’t know what you should be doing… I’ve chosen to use Rust and I think I’ll adopt http’s keep alive semantics… I wonder if the server can disconnect the client just as easily as the client can disconnect, are there half-open pipes?

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Hi Thanks for answering.

I finally decided not to keep streams and dial every time I need to send a message.
Probably there will be many disconnections so dialing every time seems to be the logical thing to do.

Cheers.