no need to shutdown socket after sending close connection

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cpp/src/Ice/ConnectionI.cpp b/cpp/src/Ice/ConnectionI.cpp
index d9a5b51ff3f..743e6eaa00e 100644
--- a/cpp/src/Ice/ConnectionI.cpp
+++ b/cpp/src/Ice/ConnectionI.cpp
@@ -1712,7 +1712,15 @@ Ice::ConnectionI::initiateShutdown() const
 	os.i = os.b.begin();
 	traceHeader("sending close connection", os, _logger, _traceLevels);
 	_transceiver->write(os, _endpoint->timeout());
-	_transceiver->shutdownWrite();
+	//
+	// The CloseConnection message should be sufficient. Closing the write
+	// end of the socket is probably an artifact of how things were done
+	// in IIOP. In fact, shutting down the write end of the socket causes
+	// problems on Windows by preventing the peer from using the socket.
+	// For example, the peer is no longer able to continue writing a large
+	// message after the socket is shutdown.
+	//
+	//_transceiver->shutdownWrite();
     }
 }