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From: Volker Kokula <kokula@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: Re: Socket programming
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:41:22 +0100
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Hi Ardhan,


you're going to write an enterly unportable and insecure program. If you 
want just send a structure from one host to another look for a library 
which does the packing and unpacking over the network for you.

For example json-c [1] or csoap [2]


Volker



[1] http://oss.metaparadigm.com/json-c/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/csoap/