Need a way to close a socket read or write part individually

[schveiguy]

Sockets can be full duplex, we need a way to close individually the read and write end of the socket, as some protocols won't work unless you close your writing end first.

[MartinNowak]

Any example @schveiguy, I'm not sure whether you're speaking of TCP close or HTTP close or sth. entirely different.

[schveiguy]

I'm thinking of protocols which require shutdown of the send side before receiving the response. Though at the time I was confused about http (the protocol I'm trying to use), and thought I needed to do that there, I know there are some protocols that require a shutdown of the write side.

[schveiguy]

Basically, we need an API for this: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/shutdown.2.html