Thread: Recieving bad bytes

Has anyone heard of a problem with recieving bad bytes? I am using my program to download a file (the google logo.gif) and byte for byte is the same except that any 0x00 bytes I should be recieving are shown/saved as 0x20 (the space character). I can not figure this out, every other byte is exactly the same.

it seems to be working fine. all the other bytes are being recieved ok. I did a byte compare and the only differences are that the recieved file has byte 0x20 where it should be 0x00. The only thing I can think of is because I'm requesting the file through http 1.1, that maybe it's a problem of some kind.

Code:

		case FD_READ:
			{
				DWORD dwBytesWritten = 0;
				int iBytesRecv = 0;
				ZeroMemory(xbuff, 256);
				ZeroMemory(tmpbuff, 350);

				if (CaptureAsFile)
				{
					while (true)
					{
						ZeroMemory(xbuff, 256);
						iBytesRecv = Client.Recv(xbuff, 256);
						if ((iBytesRecv == 0) ||
							(iBytesRecv == -1) ||
							(iBytesRecv == SOCKET_ERROR))
							break;
						WriteFile(hCapFile, xbuff, iBytesRecv, &dwBytesWritten, NULL);
					}

					CaptureAsFile = false;
					CloseHandle(hCapFile);
				}

Code:

INT PEER::Recv(CHAR *databuff, INT len)
{
	if (wProtocol == TCP)
	{
		if ((iRecvBytes = recv(sckPeer, databuff, len, 0)) == SOCKET_ERROR)
			if ((iError = WSAGetLastError()) != WSAEWOULDBLOCK)
					return -1;
		iTRecvBytes += iRecvBytes;
		return iRecvBytes;
	}
	return -1;
}

Originally Posted by bithub

Your code looks OK. I'm starting to think that the reason you are seeing 0x20 instead of 0x00 is from how you read the bytes. Are you using a different program to read the bytes you downloaded? It's possible that the program is trying to read the file as a text file instead of a binary file, and so it changes the bytes to 0x20. You should use a hex editor to read the file after you've downloaded it instead of a text editor.

Yes, I am using a hex editor. I view both the file my program downloaded and the the image saved to hard disk from firefox. The only difference is that 0-bytes are the 0x20. Could this be because of how the file is requested through http/1.1? Somehow the server wants to send it that way? The request I use is this:

GET /intl/en/images/logo.gif HTTP/1.1

So it seems when you open a file in notepad to delete content header information, then save it, 0x00 bytes are saved as 0x20. I had to find my old keyboard to type this response in.