Andrew Coppin wrote:
John Goerzen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:36:32AM -0700, John A. De Goes wrote:
The number of applications requiring the implementation of a custom web server is an insignificant fraction of the number of applications requiring a messaging system. I don't think anyone would dispute Haskell's ability to do low-level, raw networking, of the type that few people actually need to do. It's the higher level stuff where there's a huge amount of room for improvement.
I disagree on both points.
Haskell has had somewhat of a deficit in the low-level networking stuff, not even supporting IPv6 in the standard stack until just recently. (That is, things like AF_INET6 were not present.)
I think it has pretty much caught up by now though.
Any idea how I get Haskell to send ICMP ECHO packets? (And, obviously, receive the replies.)
SocketType claims to support Raw, which I think is the conventional means for doing this. Whether all the infrastructure for that is there, I don't know. I have never worked with raw sockets though, so I may be leading you down a dark mugger-laden alley here ;-) -- John