alt Hacker NewsI think you can avoid most issues by not doing what you're describing! Ensuring data arrives uncorrupted is usually not an application-level concern, and if you use something like TCP you get that functionality for free.
I think you can avoid most issues by not doing what you're describing! Ensuring data arrives uncorrupted is usually not an application-level concern, and if you use something like TCP you get that functionality for free.
TCP helps but only to a certain extent; it only guarantees specific ordering of bits during its session. Suppose you have to construct an object out of three separate transmissions, like some kind of multipart style thing. If one of the transmissions gets corrupted or gets errors out from TCP, then you still fall into that maybe trap.