Re: [Epp-rtk-devel] 0503 vs 0604/0705: EPPTransportTCP.readFromServer()

[Michael J S. <ms...@gk...>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Mark S Petrovic wrote:

> I understand what the EPPTransportTCP.readFromServer() code does in
> 0503, but am baffled by the equivalent in 0604/0705, the latter of which
> returns a 32-bit integer representation of the first four bytes read
> from the Greeting message, which happens to be the beginning of the
> XML declaration.

I think this may be the source of your confusion.  In 07/05, the first
4 bytes are not the XML declaration.

In 07/05, the way EPP is serialized over TCP is that the first 4 bytes
of each message is a 32 bit integer in "network" (big-endian) order.
The value of this integer is the size of the EPP message in bytes
(including the 4 byte header).  See draft-ietf-provreg-epp-tcp-05.txt,
Section 4 "Data Unit Format" where this is covered.

I don't know if there are any public sandboxes supporting EPP 07/05.

Regards,
Michael Schout