• Ameer Armaly (5/5) Jul 21 2005 Hi all.
• Ben Hinkle (7/12) Jul 21 2005 Is it the length of the string about to be sent? I kindof doubt it since...
• Tim Laurent (6/13) Jul 27 2005 I encountered similar behaviour when I wrote a simple HTTP client. I
• Ben Hinkle (5/16) Jul 27 2005 note Ameer emailed me offline and he was reading using readLine and send...

"Ameer Armaly" <ameer_armaly hotmail.com> writes:

Hi all.
I am writing a telnet-like application, and am experiencing some strange 
behavior with my sockets.  When the user hits enter,  the text is sent, but 
before that 4 extra bytes (usually ctrl-b and 3 nulls) are sent.  What does 
this mean, and how can I avoid it? 

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> writes:

"Ameer Armaly" <ameer_armaly hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:dbo7ej$272m$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Hi all.
 I am writing a telnet-like application, and am experiencing some strange 
 behavior with my sockets.  When the user hits enter,  the text is sent, 
 but before that 4 extra bytes (usually ctrl-b and 3 nulls) are sent.  What 
 does this mean, and how can I avoid it?

Is it the length of the string about to be sent? I kindof doubt it since it 
would be odd if all your test strings had the same length. Posting some code 
would help. For example if you are using std.stream the method write(char[]) 
will first send the length and then the string contents. The result must be 
read using read (and watch out about endianness if you go this route).

Tim Laurent <nanobyte gmx.com> writes:

Ameer Armaly wrote:
 Hi all.
 I am writing a telnet-like application, and am experiencing some strange 
 behavior with my sockets.  When the user hits enter,  the text is sent, but 
 before that 4 extra bytes (usually ctrl-b and 3 nulls) are sent.  What does 
 this mean, and how can I avoid it? 
 
 

I encountered similar behaviour when I wrote a simple HTTP client. I 
cannot find the sources for it, but I ensured the client only sent an 
array of bytes (byte[]) - that way no other information is transmitted 
except what you explicitly specify.

-Tim

"Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> writes:

"Tim Laurent" <nanobyte gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:dc8gic$b4r$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Ameer Armaly wrote:
 Hi all.
 I am writing a telnet-like application, and am experiencing some strange 
 behavior with my sockets.  When the user hits enter,  the text is sent, 
 but before that 4 extra bytes (usually ctrl-b and 3 nulls) are sent. 
 What does this mean, and how can I avoid it?

 I encountered similar behaviour when I wrote a simple HTTP client. I 
 cannot find the sources for it, but I ensured the client only sent an 
 array of bytes (byte[]) - that way no other information is transmitted 
 except what you explicitly specify.

 -Tim

note Ameer emailed me offline and he was reading using readLine and sending 
using write so the first 4 bytes he saw were indeed the length of the string 
in platform-dependent byte order.