On Jul 19, 7:43 am, Irmen de Jong <irmen.nos...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > twgray wrote: > > I am attempting to send a jpeg image file created on an embedded > > device over a wifi socket to a Python client running on a Linux pc > > (Ubuntu). All works well, except I don't know, on the pc client side, > > what the file size is? > > You don't. Sockets are just endless streams of bytes. You will have to design > some form > of 'wire protocol' that includes the length of the message that is to be read.
Apologies in advance for my ignorance -- the last time I dipped my toe in that kind of water, protocols like zmodem and Kermit were all the rage -- but I would have thought there would have been an off-the- shelf library for peer-to-peer file transfer over a socket interface ... not so? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
