There are several articles written that I have been able to find on reading data from sockets, and there is one about reading from multiple sockets that I think touches a little on how I would accomplish this, but I am still a bit vague on how to do it correctly.

I need to read data from a socket a single byte at a time, after a certain point. It is a custom protocol which is combined ASCII and BINARY, with ASCII as the headers and certain meta-data components, and BINARY for the raw data.

I would like to be able to read the headers line by line (since they appear at the beginning of the session and never again), then read byte-by-byte through the rest of the session, scanning for certain ASCII characters within it that denote the beginning of the meta-data, and so on and so forth.

Anyone have any insight on how to accomplish this?

- Mike

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