[Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

[Gary Bickford]

One rather funky  but effective solution might be to use the tftp
protocol.  No security, but simple, flexible and efficient.  I think
there are C libraries that implement it.  This would take care of
handshaking binary data.  I have no idea if anyone has ever used it in
Haskell.
GB
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:50 -0500, haskell-cafe-request at haskell.org
wrote:
> robably not all of them, but some of them, definitely.
> 
> If you want to transmit an arbitrary bytestring then I'm pretty sure 
> that transmitting a length word first is the way to go. An arbitrary 
> bytestring can have any value in it, so there are no values left to
> act 
> as delimiters :) You'd have to have some kind of escaping mechanism, 
> like show, which is expensive.
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