Re: Trying to use NSStream -another question

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Mon Jan 14 00:12:24 2008

On 13 Jan 08, at 14:41, Development wrote:
> Below is a snippet of the code I'm using for getting the incoming 
> data from the stream. It is cutting download speed from what it 
> should be at around 200Kbps to 22 - 30 Kbps.. I know it is because 
> it reads the data one byte at a time but my attempts to have it read 
> all bytes available have produced much failure. Can any one suggest 
> how to speed this piece of code up? (The main problem I've been 
> having is that if it reads the whole buffer I cannot seem to find 
> the \r\n any where, and so the program cannot find the end of the 
> message from the server. Also when I tre the getBuffer:length: 
> function, the length I get seems always to be 0.


>            uint8_t oneByte;
>            actuallyRead = [istream read:&oneByte maxLength:1]; <- if 
> I set max length to 2048 it crashes


Well, yeah, I imagine it would - because you're trying to read 2 kB 
into a one-byte buffer (and trashing your stack in the process).