RE: network programming

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 19:13:52 -0400

Me I would use boost library and the serialize class that makes it simple to
turn a structure or class into an xml structure and extract it on the other
end.

Ken

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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:37 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: network programming

Hello list,
I've got a question. I've been working on a program, and I have a document 
that explains the protocol and how things work.
It's about 20 pages so far, but it'll probably get revised to be shorter 
once I start doing the actual work and seeing whether things will work.
My question is this:
I'm working with a structure that looks something like:
struct packet
{
MessageType mtype;
int DataLength;
char* data;
};
How would I go about serializing that so that it'll go across the stream? 
I'll need to memcpy the data I'm thinking, no?
I'm also looking at encryption; I need to find some sort of way to let the 
client encrypt with the host, without a predefined key; the only way I can 
think of is for the host to build a random key, but then it'd have to send 
it cleartext to the client, which is rather counterproductive.



Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

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