Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#

Re:Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# by ambicapter on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @12:58PM (#12037829)

I don't understand this encoding method. If say, a dictionary starts with d and ends with e, how do you know with "d3:key5:valuee" if the value is "value" or "valu"?

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Re:Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# by sigcode on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @09:33AM (#12042923)

http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt (1997)

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Re:Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# by robteix on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @01:03PM (#12037869)

Because the value is actually "5:value", which means it's 5 bytes long. The final 'e' indicates the end of the dictionary, not the value.

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Re:Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# by nemaar on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @01:01PM (#12037853)

The length of the string is included, so you know where it ends.

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