[Flashcoders] binary data Flash !

2006-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Binary Data through XMLSocket : --- How we can send binary data through XMLSocket.I have been able to receive binary data but not been able to send binary data through XMLSocket i tried using Array but it automatically inserted commas between the elements of Array.Is

Re: [Flashcoders] binary data Flash !

2006-05-07 Thread Peter Hall
No, not really. If you can wait until Flash Player 9, the AS3 Socket object handles binary data natively. Peter On 5/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Binary Data through XMLSocket : --- How we can send binary data through XMLSocket.I have been

Re: [Flashcoders] binary data Flash !

2006-05-07 Thread Peter Hall
And FWIW, you will have all kinds of problems using XMLSocket for binary data, in either direction. For example, when receiving binary data, if there is a null byte, the byte will be considered to be a packet delimiter, and will be removed (and preceding data will be passed as a string to

Re: [Flashcoders] binary data Flash !

2006-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:01 +0100 To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] binary data Flash ! And FWIW, you will have all kinds of problems using XMLSocket for binary data, in either direction. For example, when receiving binary data, if there is a null byte, the byte will be considered

Re: [Flashcoders] binary data Flash !

2006-05-07 Thread Chris Allen
Peter is right. I had all kinds of issues with certain Jabber XMPP servers that wouldn't return the null byte at the end of stanzas. XMLSocket definitely needs this. And as he says, if it receives one of those suckers in the middle of one of your packets, it's going to trigger the onMessage

Re: [Flashcoders] binary data Flash !

2006-05-07 Thread Peter Hall
Yes. If you have an existing binary connection, that you need to interface with, I'd suggest handling it on the server and translating it into something that you can handle in Flash. If XML is ok, then you can easily create socket servers in Python, PHP, Java,... etc. Otherwise, you can use AMF