Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: > Richard wrote: >> This excercise raises a question: rather than invent another protocol, >> why not use HTTP? > > > Usually, because HTTP is quite decidedly a client-server protocol. > If you have a peer-peer protocol need, then you have to bend HTTP > out of shape :-) Soc

Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-25 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 25/02/2025 19:49, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Because I developed my own encryption API which uses AES256 but has a couple tricks. SSL certs will not suffice, and the whole point to having my own encryption technique is so that I can avoid SSL certs and the process of registering

Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I played around with this last night, and determined that the length does not have to be sent, the receiving process can simply keep reading for n characters, appending the data to a low level file in a repeat loop until the it variable is empty. I tried this and the entire payload was received.

Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Because I developed my own encryption API which uses AES256 but has a couple tricks. SSL certs will not suffice, and the whole point to having my own encryption technique is so that I can avoid SSL certs and the process of registering them and installing them. Because I am encrypting the file

Re: Low-code dev tools checklist, Red Flags, LC Options to consider

2025-02-25 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
Hi! -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 21:09 J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Anyone who cut their teeth on HyperCard is old now. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Soft

Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: > I played around with this last night, and determined that the length does > not have to be sent, the receiving process can simply keep reading for n > characters, appending the data to a low level file in a repeat loop until > the it variable is empty. I tried this and the ent