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ocrow • today at 6:10 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

Seems like a coherent, sensible proposal, as one might expect from djb. Any notable protocols use them?

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Scaevolus • today at 6:15 AM

BitTorrent's bencoding format, used in .torrent files, effectively uses netstrings-- but without the trailing commas, so it uses "5:hello" to represent filenames and similar.

asalahli • today at 7:36 AM

Not sure if it counts as notable, but SCGI uses it too: https://python.ca/scgi/protocol.txt

toast0 • today at 6:34 AM

Php serialized uses

   s:size:value;
For strings, which is pretty similar. Size is in bytes.
Asmod4n • today at 10:01 AM

zurl and mongrel2 are using it.