[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Dennis Lee Bieber had written:]
>> Or create a protocol where the first 16 bits (in network byte order)
>> contain a length value for the subsequent data, and use a receive
>> process that consists of:
>>
>> leng = ntoh(socket.recv(2))
>> data = socket.receive(leng)
>>
>> (the send can combine the length with the data into a single packet)
>
> Are two 'sends' guaranteed to arrive as at least two 'receives'?
No. Nor are they guaranteed to arrive as at least most two.
> Send-3: xxx
> Send-3: yyy
> Receive-6: xxxyyy
Can happen, though I think the problem with Dennis's code is the
other way. The recv in
leng = ntoh(socket.recv(2))
might return one byte of data, not two. The latter recv is similar.
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