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- From: Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
- To: Tony O'Keeffe <tony.okeeffe@trintech.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:46:40 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tony O'Keeffe wrote:
>
> I have a question about XML socket server applications,
> i.e. applications which:
>
> 1. listen on a socket
> 2. accept a connection
> 3. accept one or more XML documents (requests) on the connection
> 4. send one or more XML documents (responses) on the connection
> 5. close the connection
>
> Is it more usual to:
>
> (i) Precede each XML document with a MIME header,
> including a Content-Length header (which might
> be mandatory for the purposes of the application), OR
> (ii) Just send "pure" XML documents with no preceding
> headers, OR
> (iii) Do something else
>
We send a 4-byte network-ordered length in front of the XML.
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Bob Kline
mailto:bkline@rksystems.com
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