Hello everybody,

could you please help me with the following problem:

I'm using a TcpClient to connect to a server. When I send a message and
the server doesn't reply in time, I send the same message again until a
given number of loops is reached or the server sends a reply.

I do not want to wait infinitely for the server to reply, so I set a
ReceiveTimeout of 5 seconds.

The problem is, the ReceiveTimeout is only used for the first message I
send. The other calls just don't bother and return right away.

The code to do this looks as follows:

TcpClient tcpClient = new TcpClient(host, port);
try
{
  tcpClient.SendTimeout = this.sendTimeout;
  tcpClient.ReceiveTimeout = this.receiveTimeout;

  byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(clientMessage);
  byte[] input = new byte[512];
  NetworkStream stream = tcpClient.GetStream();
  StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();

  for (int i = 0; i < retries; i++)
  {
    try
    {
      stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
      do
      {
        int read = stream.Read(input, 0, input.Length);
        result.Append(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(input, 0, read));
      }
      while (!result.ToString().Contains(CurrentLineEnding));

      // Handle read result here...
    }
    catch
    {
      // Ignore Exception, read again
    }
  }
}
finally
{
  tcpClient.Client.Shutdown(SocketShutdown.Both);
  tcpClient.Client.Close();
  tcpClient.Close();
}

Can someone please tell me how I can make sure that the client waits 5
seconds whenever I read? I've also tried setting the ReadTimeout for the
network stream without any luck. What am I missing?

Thanks
Thorsten