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 _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
