how to write bytes to server socket

Question

I\'m writing a java socket program to read data from server, I\'ve no control to server, below is protocol agreed,

• 2-bytes: magic number
• 2-bytes: data l

Answer 1

Watch out for the big endinanness!

DataxxxStream - although it is quite handy - does not offer a full support for both little and big endian numbers and arbitrary String encodings.

See my post at How to Read Byte Stream from Socket