Subj : Proxy Service Issues
To   : Drakmir
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Oct 11 2005 05:18 pm

  Re: Proxy Service Issues
  By: Drakmir to All on Fri Oct 07 2005 09:56 am

 >   Re: Proxy Service Issues
 >   By: Drakmir to All on Thu Oct 06 2005 08:44 am
 > 
 > So, after working on it last night and with some hints from Digital Man, I'v
 > come up with something that seems to work to proxy a socket. There is only o
 > unknown, and I've noticed that the use of "sendBin" seems to be what is
 > crashing my computer.  (If I use any number of bytes other that 4 it seems t
 > occasionaly crash).

What value (for number of byte) did you use when it crashed? Do you have
example code that can reproduce this crash?

 > The one sticky point is that when using "peek" or "read", sometimes you get 
 > string that is shorter than the number of bytes available to you.  The only
 > thing I can think of is that there is a embedded \0 character in the data
 > stream which C is then reading as the end of the string.  It would help to h
 > a read/write that dealt with the "string" we provide as a buffer instead.  I
 > assume this is true because doing:
 > 
 > socket.send("test\0test2"); only outputs "test".

Ah, true. That'll be fixed for the next release. :-)

                                                  digital man

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