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Re: I've been lazy

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From	lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: I've been lazy
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On Jul 15, 12:59 am, Ross <rossclem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just written a client/server application. Usually when I do this,
> I have to spend some time getting the protocols right, with hung
> clients or servers being a typical alpha debugging scenario. This time
> I just decided that all communications from the client were a single
> string (encoded and sent encrypted with the server's public key).
> Where usually I'd have a sequence of steps for operations that require
> multiple bits of data, I just encoded all data into the single string,
> and the server unpacks them, executes the command potentially using
> unpacked data, and then replies with a single packed string. This was
> much easier than having multi-step protocols.
>
> Next time I'm defining an XML schema for requests and replies to make
> this even more robust/general.
>
> Apologies for the stream of consciousness question-less post.

This isn't a help desk but a discussion group, so your introduction of
a discussion topic is entirely appropriate.  Sounds like RESTful
services or other XML-based communication protocols.  Since there are
plenty of robust, standard libraries for this out there, you might
seriously want to use those.  It's hard enough to master the
deployment and ops details without reinventing the programming wheels.

--
Lew

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I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 00:59 -0700
  Re: I've been lazy lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 08:04 -0700
    Re: I've been lazy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-15 08:30 -0700
  Re: I've been lazy Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-15 08:35 -0700
    Re: I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 09:38 -0700
      Re: I've been lazy Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-16 14:48 +0200
        Re: I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 08:48 -0700
          Re: I've been lazy lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 10:21 -0700
    Re: I've been lazy Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-15 09:39 -0700

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