[PD] Getting (not pure) data over the internet

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Martin Peach wrote:
> Umm, isn't the local port always 80 for http, and the remote and local 

no, who told you that?
on most operating system you will need special privileges to open a 
local port below 1024.


> port numbers always identical for tcp?

no, who told you that?
only the remote (server) port is fixed.
the client usually chooses any free port (in the high range).

> Anyway, [tcpclient] lets you do the important CRLF combo which 
> [netclient] won't, and any http-compliant web server will not reply 
> until it gets that.


you can add CRLF with [netclient] as well, but it is far more 
complicated than with [tcpclient].
on the other side, it is more complicated to generate your query and 
interpret the response with [tcpclient]


mfga.sdr
IOhannes