Hi !

I would like to know, how to trap an event, that the remote peer has
closed the connection.

Here is a simple script which sends a line, and receives one.
       Socket socket ;
       OutputStream      outputStream = null ;
       BufferedReader    inputStream = null;
       try {
           socket = new Socket("mypeer", 5555) ;
           socket.setKeepAlive(true) ;
           socket.setSoTimeout(5000) ;
           outputStream = new PrintStream(socket.getOutputStream());
           inputStream  = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader
(socket.getInputStream()));
           String s = new String("This is to be sent\n") ;
           outputStream.write(s.getBytes()) ;
           outputStream.flush() ;
           String r ;
           if ((r = inputStream.readLine()) == null) {
              System.out.println("NOTHING READ") ;
           } else {
              System.out.println("This was read: " + r) ;
           }
           outputStream.flush() ;
           outputStream.close() ;
           inputStream.close() ;
           socket.close() ;
       } catch (Exception e) {
           e.printStackTrace() ;
       }

Is the NULL from readLine() 100% sign that socket was closed by remote
peer, or may be just lack of data remote did not send ?
Should I wait for stream write() and catch exception ?

Any help would be appreciated.