Thread: How to write server?

Hello! I am starting to write a simple server. The purpose of the server is to accept text file, parse the file and return the edited version to the client.

The examples of the server/client I have seen to far only have cases where client sends one line, then server sends one line.

But how do you send multiple lines? Do you have to accumulate the lines into ArrayList or something like that?

How do you detect end of document? Do you have to send special sequence of lines like blank line followed by a line with a single dot? (This is how the NNTP servers do it, I remember from many years ago I wrote client to NNTP server)

Can someone point to some examples of servers that accept multi line documents and send multi-line responses?

Thanks.

By server I presume you mean an http type server? Data can be sent via get or post in a form text area, or uploaded from a file. The server can then process the data on server side (servlet, jsp, etc...). The server page can then output the response as html text in a page, or as a downloadable file by setting the header type. If you are truly writing your own server, then more information on the client/server communication would help

I am talking about writing my own server using sockets. I don't need the overhead of the http server.

Again, information about the client is helpful...custom, browser, etc..? Presuming its a custom client, just open up the socket connection and read/write the streams.