On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 04:00:09PM +0000, Dukc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > I have a project where I need to take and send UDP packets over the > Internet. Only raw UDP - my application uses packets directly, with > their starting `[0x5a, packet.length.to!ubyte]` included. And only > communication with a single address, no need to communicate with > multiple clients concurrently. > > I understand that I could do it either with the Curl library bundled > with Phobos, or use Vibe.D or Hunt instead. But it's the first time > I'm dealing with low-level networking like this, and my knowledge > about it is lacking. So seek opinions about what library I should > use, and more importantly, why.
If you already have the raw packets, there is no need for any library, just call the OS's C API directly (such as core.sys.posix.sys.socket). For UDP you don't even need to set up anything, just create a socket and fire the packets away. --T
