Cannot read data from TcpStream

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I am having some trouble with the std::net::TcpStream struct...
I set up an echo server using ncat on my machine which is listening on port 12345:
ncat -l 12345 -e /bin/cat -k

I try to send some data to this server using a little rust program, which should then read the servers response and print it to stdout:

use std::net::{SocketAddr, TcpStream};
use std::io::{self, Read, Write};

fn send_recv(addr: &str, data: &str) -> io::Result<String> {
    let mut sock = try!(TcpStream::connect(addr));
    try!(sock.write_all(data.as_bytes()));
    println!("Data was sent...");

    let mut buf = String::new();
    try!(sock.read_to_string(&mut buf));
    Ok(buf)
}

fn main() {
    match send_recv("localhost:12345", "Hello World!") {
        Ok(r)  => println!("success: {}", r),
        Err(e) => println!("error: {}", e)
    }
}

The data is sent to the server, but my program won't ever read the servers response, and I'm not sure why that is.
Any help would be appreciated!

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Nothing indicates to cat that the stream is finished, so read_to_string is going to wait forever on more data.

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Yes, I just figured that out too...
Now thats kind of emberassing :sweat:

However, thanks for pointing it out @sfackler :slight_smile: