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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT.Sockets. Blocking?
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:35 -0700 (PDT), Jacob M. H. Smith wrote:

> Can't I just read as much as is available?

Yes, you can, by reading one octet (byte) at a time. Since you don't know
the logical packet size in advance, any incoming octet may indicate the
packet end (when it contains LF, in the case of HTTP).

Search for a earlier discussion in comp.lang.ada concerning reading "lines"
from socket stream (or any other stream, if that matters).

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