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I've been lazy

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From	Ross <rossclement@gmail.com>
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Subject	I've been lazy
Date	Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:59:32 -0700 (PDT)
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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.

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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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