Protocol Changes (was: Zoom / Scaling in VNC)

[John Wilson]

[snip]

> Quoting John Wilson <tug "at" wilson.co.uk>:
> > One of the programs I have written is VncProxy - that's how I found the
> > protocol race condition. Having a length marginally simplifies the proxy
> > code but it would not make much difference to the performance of a
proxy -
> > threading and IP buffer management are the things that seem to make the
real
> > difference.
> >
>    This certainly speaks to the issue of performance gains or losses
> in making such a change, but there is another aspect.  If new versions
> of the protocol make possible new types of encodings, you'll always
> have to rewrite your proxy to support each new one.  With a length
> spec, the proxy could simply pass the updates on without having to
> decode them.

It's not a prospect that keeps me awake at night.

John Wilson
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