[Chicken-users] Re: S11n Egg Problem

[felix winkelmann]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Joshua Griffith
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When a serialized object gets corrupted or truncated (which often occurs
> when it is transmitted over a TCP connection), attempting to deserialize
> that object results in a "Bus error" and immediate program termination,
> rather than a raised exception.  How difficult would it be to modify the
> s11n egg so that it fails gracefully upon receipt of corrupted data?
>

It shouldn't be too hard, one just would have to precede a chunk of
data with a checksum. I can look into this (unless you need a quick
solution, because I can't exactly say when I get around doing so).


cheers,
felix