At Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:28:48 +0200 (EET) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > 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? You might really do better using a scripting language, such as Tcl, Perl, or Python. Doing socket-level I/O (with or without SSL) in C or C++ is a non-trivial process. > > 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? > > > >rather offtopic for this list. but... > > > >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 > > > >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. > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS at centos.org > >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments