Sockets program adding characters?

["Versfelt, Charles" <CVERSFELT@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

Thanks for your reply.  There's no End of Record, but the first ten bytes of the reply contains the length of the rest of the reply.  So I can continue receiving until I reach the reply length.  It should be no problem to code it to do that.

First though I have to get it to send me a valid reply, which I believe means getting through those invalid characters.

I noticed that my last message to this group, the e-mail changed the weird characters to question marks.

The message from the server:

02/Mar/2011:09:17:15:609 -0500;4364;9;DICom.cpp;InOutProc;INFO;Server could not send data on the socket;ERRCODE|001000011|ERRMSG|Validation of message failed : ????????????O0000000151RATE|

Those question marks on the actual server look like foreign characters.  ("O"s with accents or two dots over them.)
The characters aren't in the variable that I send in, as far as I can tell... But the server on the other side is seeing them.

Oddly, the server isn't even sending me ERRCODE|001000011|ERRMSG| which is what I'd expect as a reply if that was the main problem.  The server is sending me a short string of zeros, 00000000 as my entire reply.

Thanks again,
Charlie



> RE: Sockets program adding characters?
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> Charles,
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> Your RecvAscii should loop over recv() until you have a complete message.  All the parts may not make it across the >network at the same time, so your receiver must be patient.
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> Do you have some sort of EndOfRecord that you can watch for?  Simplest approach here is to receive one byte at a >time, append it to your "receive buffer" while watching for your end of record character...
>
> Hth,
> -Eric DeLong