Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
>
> "Graham Harris" <ng@bmsgharr.globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:45dc5310$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> > Using Indy 10.0.16
>
> That is a very old build. You should consider upgrading to the
latest
> 10.1.6 snapshot.
That is the version I am using, miss typed my version numbers.
> > how do I determine the size of the input buffer?
>
> That depends on the particular protocol that you are trying to
> implement in the first place.
Basically the protocol is two different XML documents that is sent over
a TCP/IP connection.
> There are only two reliable ways to send text over a socket in
> general:
>
> 1) preceed the text data with an integer that specifies the length of
> the text being sent. Read the length first, then you can read the
> specified number of bytes/characters next.
>
> 2) append a unique terminator byte/character/string to the end of the
> text, something that is guaranteed never to appear in the text, and
> then keep reading until you find that terminator.
>
>
The problem is that one of the XML documents is from a legacy
application that used a TServerSocket that uses Socket.ReceiveText. The
other XML document I can stick the document size in front of the XML
stream.
Graham Harris
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