[Tutor] creating a server

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/10/2020 19:13, nathan tech wrote:
> I certainly have and was going to base my code around it but was unsure 
> if sockets could handle the passing of objects?

sockets only care about bytes, they know nothing about data types.
That's up to you! You will need to choose a format to encode
your data in the message - JSON or YAML or XML or ASN.1 etc.
Then use a parser to pack/unpack the high level into and out
of the data stream.

But your own suggested server was still using sockets and reading bytes.

You had a recv(1024) call. That reads 1024 bytes. What would happen
if your "object" was 1500 bytes long? You'd only have part of it to process.

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