• From: Bob Kline <bkline@r...>
• To: Tony O'Keeffe <tony.okeeffe@t...>
• 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.

-- 
Bob Kline
mailto:bkline@r...
http://www.rksystems.com

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