Thank you for the reply.
   The data is not so much - CPU utilization, RAM utilization, List of installed software, list of users and so on. The information is not so much. What are the options for this task is there a C++ library that I can use to convert the data and then to transfer if via network?

Regards
Peter


>> I need advice about developing C++ program. I need to develop 2
>> application which must communicate via network using SSL encryption.
>> The problem is in which format to exchange the data. I can use XML
>> format to exchange data between the hosts but a lot traffic will be
>> generated. What are the usual practices to exchange data between the
>> hosts?
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>rather offtopic for this list. but...
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>XML is about the most inefficient format imaginable, typically exploding
>your data to many times its original size, especially if it has lots of
>small fields
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>what format is the data in now that you're exchanging? I'd want to use
>something close to the native format of the data. if performance is
>important, you'll want to transmit the data in binary as close to its
>native format as possible. if its complex structured data such as is
>often expressed in XML, you could look at defining a binary interchange
>format with JSON or ASN.1, but I'd be more inclined to roll my own
>simple binary message format since its just between your own two programs.
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