Client socket - Sending hex but see ascii code on wire

[simoco]

Hi

I'm trying to send a hex stream on a client socket and despite converting the ouput to hex it still appears on the wire as the ascii code of the character that is sent.

I.e. I send 0005 and from wireshark I see 30 30 30 35 - What I need is 00 05

I have done a 'format %x $var' to conver to hex but I think I will need to set some parameter on the client socket to stop it converting to ascii.

Does anyone know how to 'fconfiure' the socket to get my required result.

Thanks

 

[Bong]

The socket needs to be configured for binary:
fconfigure <channelID> -translation binary
But you can just send the character representation of the binary:
\x00 \x05

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Bob Rashkin

 

[simoco]

Thats got it - Thanks a load (I'll sleep better now this weekend).