[Freeswitch-users] Event-List: double Content-Lenght?

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2011/3/22 Anthony Minessale <anthony.minessale at gmail.com>:
> this is an encapsulated event inside a container event.
>
> if you were framing this on the wire you would read the headers
> (everything up to the gap)
> the content-length of 625 tells you to read exactly that many bytes
> and content type text/event-plain
>
> now when you read 625 bytes you can continue to read on the wire for a
> new event.
> Meanwhile you url decode that payload and you have another event who
> also has a payload of 41 bytes.
> Now you can read these 41 bytes to get the payload which is the exact
> size of the message contained in the event.

Ok, understood. I still think it's a bit strange but I understand.


> None of this matters to you if you use the ESL lib supplied with FS to
> read events into a scripting language.

For now I just want to fully understand the protocol. I will use some
existing erver library (Ruby library) for Outbound Listener, or maybe
create my own one.

Thanks a lot for your explanation.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>