Heya all (again) ;) Sorry to keep this thread alive, but I just wanted to add another senario to my poor effort so far. In my previous email to this thread, i said that Daniel got me inspired to solving his APPEND BUFFER solution. Well, after I jumped in a started modifing my code, i realised a major flaw with it -> how does the CLIENT KNOW, when it has recieved ALL THE PACKETS for the particular response? Example. Lets say my client sends the following request to the mud :- cl_mortal_list The client_interpreter now goes OH! you want a list of all the mortals online ... hmm. ok .. here's the XML data of them. My client then goes .. kewl! and it recieved X number of packets, appending each packet to a global string which i know we don't have the first packet (Ie. CLIENT_OK or CLIENT_ERROR). Problem is now, when do i know i've recieved that last packet? I need to wait for another response from the server which will be a FIRST PACKET RESPONSE. So then i thought, just APPEND the text [CLIENT_END] to the end of each text, and when my buffered text contains that, then i can proceede. Hmm ... not a bad idea. But still i don't like the idea of a packet spliting up THAT TEXT ;) So then i thought, i could change my protocol to -> <STATUS><SIZE_OF_TEXT> <TEXT> example of client side returned data.... [CLIENT_OK][51] Welcome to Eternal Visions MUD - Client. [CLIENT_OK][9] Username: [CLIENT_OK][10] Password: [CLIENT_OK][10] Connected. [CLIENT_ERROR][35] Interpreter :: No command detected. .... So now i know that if my buffered text is NOT / LESS THAN the size of the response text, we keep buffering ;) Just thought i might further this thread for those interested. -Jussy- -\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Everan Roseblade Everan@EternalVisions.com Eternal Visions Mud eternalvisions.com:1200 www.eternalvisions.com -\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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