hey! protocol people! i need your help. i have a case where i have a stream of bytes and i want to add some extra information into it, except: a) the stream of bytes is not delimited in any way, and b) i want to keep worst-case expansion lower than 2×, i.e. no escape characters
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Replying to @whitequark
Transmit your data as a series of pascal strings (len byte+data), a bit similar to HTTP chunked encoding. Then use len=0 as prefix for your sideband data.
6:06 AM - 15 Aug 2019
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