Could just send it as a binary blob and not as a string (pretend it is
opaque binary data, and not a string, use binary functions, not string
functions).

On 11/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well it would be nice if there were a version of string networking that was 
> binary-safe.
>
> At 2006/09/03 08:33 PM, Aaron Schiff wrote:
> >--
> >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> >You could use a networked string table as well as the index of the string in
> >the entity network table.  Then you can specify the string length in
> >AddString for the user data.
> >
> >On 9/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> I thought there was a forum or mailing list thread on this once before but
> >> I can't find it.  Basically it seems that the close-source side of the
> >> networking does a 0x00-truncated data copy.  So you can't send strings 
> >> along
> >> the wire that contain a 0x00 byte in them, such as wide-char strings etc.
> >>
> >> Anyone know of a work-around?  (Short of encoding the base64ing the
> >> strings or something like that.)
> >>
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