sending binary data over sockets

[Diez B. Roggisch]

thorley at gmail.com schrieb:
> Greetings, since there was no reponse to my previous post about an
> existing FastCGI server in python, I've taken to writing my own. (which
> of course I'll share--*if* there's something to share ;)
> 
> My problem now, is that I need to send certain binary data over a
> socket. That is, I want to make some bytes, and stuff them in a TCP
> packet, send them down the pipe, and then listen for a response.
> 
> socket.send, as best I can tell, will only send strings. I've read on
> the list other conversations where the recommendation was to use xdrlib
> or struct. But it appears that is only useful when you control the
> client and the server. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but using struct
> just encodes the binary data as a string, right?

WHich is perfectly alright, as