> Why not use socketmaps? These already support "inet" and "unix" > domain sockets, and they use (length, value) netstrings which require > no encoding of special characters. There are netstring implementations > for many languages, so availability should not be a problem.
Thanks. I'll definitely explore that approach... I hadn't realised the protocol for socketmap was so simple! > tcp_table(5) is not really something that I am proud of. I can appreciate your thoughts on TCP now I've looked more closely at the netstrings. Much better method, and even if there isn't an implementation it's so simple you could write it in 15 minutes haha. > The following is from Postfix internal documentation. Unfortunately I did > not find time to make this available as a socketmap_table(5) manpage. No problem! That's where the mailing list helps I guess ^^ Thanks! Jason
