socket send query

[Paul McGuire]

"connections cardiff" <sb at networkdata.co.uk> wrote in message
news:69fe7511.0402181012.3187517f at posting.google.com...
> hi all,
>
> i want to mimic what another software program sends to a server.
>
> if i look with a sniffer i can see the hex data that is being sent by
> the real software program.
>
> how can i send such data?
>
> if i send the hex data values with a socket send then python assumes i
> am trying to send a string of ascii characters and when i look at what
> was sent in the sniffer i see the data i sent has been coverted into
> their corresponding hex values.  I want python to leave it alone and
> send it.
>
> i guess if my hex values had acsii equivalents i could send them and
> they would be converted to the data i want but i dont think all my hex
> data has acsii equivalents..
>
> is there another way i should be doing this?
>
> PS.  IN CASE YOU DIDNT NOTICE I AM A NEWBIE!
>
> many thanks
>
> s
The struct module may be of help to you.  Write up how your data packet
would look as a C struct, create the corresponding struct format string (see
the struct docs), then use the pack() and unpack() methods to convert your
Python data to and from the raw binary data form.

-- Paul