Hi all,
reading and writing strings to a socket can
be done, but not with bufferedreaders and writers.
The cross platform way to do this, for example to a
POP3 server (for mail services) is:
// to recv a reply from the pop3 server:
String recv(InputStream is) throws IOException {
String result = "";
int c = is.read();
while (c >=0 && c != '\n') {
if (c != '\r') {
result += (char)c;
}
}
return result;
}
Note that the use of \n and \r are needed to keep
platform specific issues from cropping up. Readln on a mac
is different from readln on a windows system!!! And both are
different from readln on a unix system.
// to send a string to a pop3 server:
void send(OutputStream os, String s) throws IOException {
for (int i=0; i < s.length(); i++)
os.write((byte)s.charAt(i));
os.flush();
}
Regards,
- DL
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