The Scrambler Server Documentation 
ADDITIONAL INFO ON MESSAGES SENT BY THE SERVER
(Updated January 2, 2004)


I made some changes to the message format to make the server more compatible with
different types of progamming languages. This only effects messages that are sent 
out by the server (messages that you receive at the remote location).

There are no changes to the way the server handles Max Messages.

For ASCII connections, the server sends messages in 1 of the following 2 formats:


[username][space][identifier][space][data][carriage-return][line-feed]

OR

[username][space][identifier][space][data][carriage-return][line-feed][null-0-byte]


The first format is compatible with readline() commands in Java or C. The second
format is compatible with commands that read null-terminated strings.

I had to add the null-termination option so that the Flash XML-Socket object
could read server messages.

By default, the server does not send out null-terminated strings. If you want to
receive null-terminated strings, then you have to add null-termination to your
GET command string (some systems that read these strings will also send them by
default).

In most cases you can simply send and receive using whatever commands you want
and the Scrambler will figure out the protocol for you. But if you are getting
weird results, then this info should help you.



You can e-mail questions, bugs, example code, suggested corrections or
clarifications to this documentation to media@front.bc.ca. Please include
"scrambled bites" or "sb" in the subject line (I get a lot of junk mail).

(Peter Courtemanche, January 2004)