One way would be to create a separate session which handles (making something up here) "administrative requests". You specify that this session is in charge of sending and receiving any such requests. The main code posts a "get_frobnitz" event to the admin session. The admin session formulates and sends whatever request back through the communications handling session (or writes it directly to the socket's wheel). When the reply comes back an event's posted to the admin session which parses and handles it. The admin session could store the results in a shared location, or fire off another event (got_frobnitz) back to the original caller.

At any rate take a look at any of the IRC related components and bots, as I'm sure they'd give you a better idea than my vague verbal handwaving above. :)

In reply to Re^3: Design decision, call backs and network data by Fletch
in thread Design decision, call backs and network data by BUU

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