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WirelessGigabit on Sept 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, wh...

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Prepending the message with the length means the message is length-limited. Seems standard practice here.

gabipurcaru on Sept 20, 2023 [–]

yep, I think it's quite standard. The BitTorrent protocol also uses it extensively : https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding

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