opaque data stream

[Steffen Ries]

"Shaun" <shogan at iel.ie> writes:

> im figuring out how to use the xdrlib module.....and id like to know what an
> "opaque data stream is?"

Opaque data is a sequence of bytes (either variable or fixed length) which
is passed without being interpreted. i.e. the data is not modelled as
an array or structure of some defined type. (see RFC 1832 for more details)

hth,
/steffen
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