On 8/18/07, Peter Cai
As the old version of this component is written in C, it's very natural that this protocol is base on C structure definitions, which are, unfortunately, very complicated. And the worse is that every field in every structure must be converted to Network Endian.
You could certainly try Data.Binary[1] for this. It has a nice Get monad with methods such as getWord32be which sounds like it might be what you want. One caveat is that it's fully lazy - you get the result immediately and parse errors can only be caught as exceptions when you actually come to using the result. This is perfect for very large messages, but might be slightly wrong for you. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-0.3 -- Adam Langley agl@imperialviolet.org http://www.imperialviolet.org 650-283-9641