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[nik.middleton at noble...]

Hi Guys,

I’m trying to parse events in C++ for an outbound socket. The docs are a little contradictory, so I wonder if someone could help me out.

As I understand it and event is terminated with double LF’s (\n\n) However if there is a Content-Length header the wiki very confusingly says

‘Content-Length is the length of the event beginning AFTER the very next LF only line ("\n") and inclusive the trailing LF/LF pair ("\n\n")’

BUT the example says it’s after the \n\n in the header!! Which is it?

In addition, it also looks like the event body is also terminated by a \n\n. If this is the case, why do I care about content length value, can’t I simply read until I get the termination sequence?

Regards,

[jmesquita at gmail.com]

If I am not mistaken, you are always safe reading the amount data expressed on Content-Length since it is calculated based on the total message length before it is sent out of FS.

From a protocol point of view, it would indeed be much better to rely on something such as Content-Length then \n\n termination string. As I get to know more and more the core developers, I doubt they would rely on the latter.

Hope it helps...

jmesquita

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Nik Middleton <nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk (nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk)> wrote:

[brian at freeswitch.org]

Yes it says 264 bytes read exactly 264 bytes or die trying.

/b

On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:57 PM, João Mesquita wrote:

[nik.middleton at noble...]

But from where? After the double LF of the header as one part of the wiki says or after the line containing the content-length that another part of the wiki says?


-----Original Message-----
From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian West
Sent: 28 June 2009 20:23
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Confused with event content lengths

Yes it says 264 bytes read exactly 264 bytes or die trying.

/b

On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:57 PM, João Mesquita wrote:

[nik.middleton at noble...]

OK, finally figured it out.

Have updated the Wiki to remove ambiguity and posted some SUDO code

Regards,

-----Original Message-----
From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Nik Middleton
Sent: 28 June 2009 20:38
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Confused with event content lengths

But from where? After the double LF of the header as one part of the wiki says or after the line containing the content-length that another part of the wiki says?


-----Original Message-----
From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian West
Sent: 28 June 2009 20:23
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Confused with event content lengths

Yes it says 264 bytes read exactly 264 bytes or die trying.

/b

On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:57 PM, João Mesquita wrote: