Riales has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks!

I was using Protocol::WebSocket::Frame and noticed that if you try to use its to_string method, it dies with the message DO NOT USE.

Anybody know why? It looks like it fulfills a fairly benign function - it just wraps its current buffer with \x00 and \xff...

Also, anybody know the proper way to send a websocket message if not with the to_string method in this module?

Many thanks in advance!

EDIT: Figured out the proper way (or at least a way that works) - using the to_bytes method instead of the to_string method works beautifully. My vague guess is that it has something to do with encodings, but I would love if somebody that knew more would enlighten me.

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Re: Dangerous method? Protocol::WebSocket::Frame::to_string
by Anonymous Monk on May 30, 2013 at 08:26 UTC

    Anybody know why?

    Because its drawn that way? 

    sub to_string {
    my $self = shift;

    die 'DO NOT USE';

    if (   $self->version eq 'draft-hixie-75'
        || $self->version eq 'draft-ietf-hybi-00')
    {
        return "\x00" . Encode::decode('UTF-8', $self->{buffer}) . "\x
+ff";
    }
}

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    The method isn't documented, so pretend that it doesn't exist :)

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