multiple JSON documents in one file, change proposal

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:16 PM Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>> and the framing format is HTTP. I will need to type something like this:
>>
>>    POST / HTTP/1.1^M
>>    Host: localhost^M
>>    Content-type: application/json^M
>>    Content-length: 54^M
>>    ^M
>>    {
>>        "msgtype": "echo-req",
>>        "opid": 3487547843
>>    }
>>
>> That's almost impossible to type without a syntax error.
>
> 1) Set your Enter key to send CR-LF, at least for this operation.
> That's half your problem solved.

That can be much harder than typing ctrl-SPC. It *is* supported by
netcat, for example, but then you have to carefully recompute the
content-length field.

> 2) Send the request like this:
>
> POST / HTTP/1.0
> Content-type: application/json
>
> {"msgtype": "echo-req", "opid": 3487547843}
>
> Then shut down your end of the connection, probably with Ctrl-D. I'm
> fairly sure I can type that without bugs, and any compliant HTTP
> server should be fine with it.

If I terminated the input, I wouldn't need any framing. The point is to
carry a number of JSON messages/documents over a single bytestream or in
a single file. That means the HTTP content-length would be mandatory.


Marko