Running sockets in binary mode. 1

[bradius]

I have a class that uses the WinSock socket API and I need to make sure that the socket is using binary mode rather than text.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Brad.

Bradius
C++/Java programmer

 

[apatterno]

THere is no such thing as "binary mode" and "text mode" on sockets. All data is just a stream of 'octets' (what we call bytes.)

Thus, if you call this function:

[tt]char sz[256] = "ONE\nTWO";
send(
theSocket, // socket descriptor
sz, // address of string
strlen(sz)+1, // length of string plus null terminator
0);[/tt]

The data passed across the network (excluding the TCP headers) will be:

4F 4E 45 0A 54 57 4F 00

As you can see, there was no translation of the newline to a CRLF pair.

I REALLY hope this helps.
Will

 

[bradius]

Thanks very much Will. I guess windows sockets only ever transfer in binary mode (as I suppose "byte stream" is another way of saying "binary&quot.

Your post has been very helpfull.

Bradius
C++/Java programmer