In general, I would not recommend using sob. It was developed for very specific requirements at AOL and it does not scale well under load - volume or frequency. We are in the process of replacing it with something else.
Jay Damien O'Rourke wrote: > So ns_http handles binary but sob doesn't ... but sob could if it used > similar binary handling code to ns_http? > > Damien > > > On 23/10/2007, at 12:13 PM, Michael Andrews wrote: > >> That's what I believe as well. While ns_http is a different code base >> - I think both suffer from the same binary termination issue. I'm not >> sure if we saw this when using nsob with the old DCIRPC protocol - >> but we never used it for binary, so when we moved to HTTP we probably >> never thought it to be problematic. >> >> Check out dcicommon/rpc.c and dcicommon/server.c (I think). >> >> M >> >> On Oct 22, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Jeff Rogers wrote: >> >>> Dossy Shiobara wrote: >>>>> What I'm struggling with though is if I store an image file to the >>>>> sob with sob.copy and then try and retrieve it later with nsob.get, >>>>> it only returns the first 4 or 10 bytes of the file. >>>> SOB isn't encoding-aware and is actually really naive--it doesn't >>>> handle >>>> binary data well. >>> >>> Not sure if this it related, but I was just looking at ns_http for >>> an unrelated purpose and it appears that it is not binary clean at >>> all, since it uses Tcl_SetVar which expects a null-terminated >>> string. Getting binary files typically resulted in a 4 byte >>> response, could be that an average jpg file has a null at byte 4. >>> >>> -J >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ >>> >>> To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the >>> body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the >>> Subject: field of your email blank. >> >> >> -- >> AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ >> >> To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the >> body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the >> Subject: field of your email blank. > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the > Subject: field of your email blank. > -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
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