At Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:28:48 +0200 (EET) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Thank you for the reply.
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> The data is not so much - CPU utilization, RAM utilization, List of installed software, list of users and so on. The information is not so much. What are the options for this task is there a C++ library that I can use to convert the data and then to transfer if via network?
You might really do better using a scripting language, such as Tcl,
Perl, or Python. Doing socket-level I/O (with or without SSL) in C or
C++ is a non-trivial process.
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> Regards
> Peter
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> >> I need advice about developing C++ program. I need to develop 2
> >> application which must communicate via network using SSL encryption.
> >> The problem is in which format to exchange the data. I can use XML
> >> format to exchange data between the hosts but a lot traffic will be
> >> generated. What are the usual practices to exchange data between the
> >> hosts?
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> >rather offtopic for this list. but...
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> >XML is about the most inefficient format imaginable, typically exploding
> >your data to many times its original size, especially if it has lots of
> >small fields
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> >what format is the data in now that you're exchanging? I'd want to use
> >something close to the native format of the data. if performance is
> >important, you'll want to transmit the data in binary as close to its
> >native format as possible. if its complex structured data such as is
> >often expressed in XML, you could look at defining a binary interchange
> >format with JSON or ASN.1, but I'd be more inclined to roll my own
> >simple binary message format since its just between your own two programs.
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