Taru Karttunen wrote:
Hello
network-fancy offers a cleaner API to networking facilities in Haskell. It supports high-level operations on tcp, udp and unix sockets.
I would like some feedback on the API http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/network-fancy/0.1.4/doc/html/Net...
In particular: * Does the type of the server function in dgramServer make sense? or would (packet -> Address -> (packet -> IO ()) -> IO ()) be better? * Does the StringLike class make sense? * Any other suggestions?
- Taru Karttunen
One thing that seems to be missing (and also seems to be missing from the GHC standard libraries AFAICT) is listening for multicast UDP. This requires some extra socket gymnastics to handle group membership. The details can be found in the network-multicast package. Cheers, -- /me who wonders where his signature went.