Sending Messages in a TCP Stream

Question

TCP is stream-based, which means you send bytes without them necessarily being in a \"message\", so the receiver may get half a message or one and two thirds of messages.

Answer 1

You could use ØMQ (ZeroMQ) as your messaging infrastructure. ZeroMQ provides reliable message passing on top of TCP and other transport mechanisms. It has a C API and a comprehensive guide.

Note that you would have to use an external library for all peers, but you said that is OK with you.