[Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

[Timo B. Hübel]

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:32:42 you wrote:
> Timo B. Hübel wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:03:27 you wrote:
> >> Just don't use hGetContents in any serious code, or any program longer
> >> than 4 lines.
> >
> > What else do you suggest? I just want to read something out of the socket
> > without knowing it's length beforehand (my example here used ordinary
> > Strings, but actually I want to do it with ByteStrings).
>
> [...]
>
> I strongly suspect for your example you want solution 1 and hGetLine,
> though. (Which works just as well with or without ByteString)

Okay, but then I have to make sure that my strings won't contain any newline 
characters, right? If this is the case, another question raises up: I am 
using Data.Binary to do the serialization of my data structures to 
ByteString, so does anybody know if this makes guarantees about newline 
characters in the resulting ByteString? 
Otherwise I would go for the "transmit the length of what to expect"-solution.

Thanks,
Timo