Classified as: {OPEN} I want to implement an application to talk to bird daemon, basically like birdc/birdcl. The control socket is TCP stream, it is fine. But the response from bird daemon adds some headers for each line I understand server want to make a boundary/delimiter for stream. Just wondering why not just add how many bytes in the beginning of response, instead of this inconvenient way (have to decode line by line). I am not question bird implementation, just wondering :) Current format like below Show protocols 0001 BIRD 2.0.10 ready. 2002-Name Proto Table State Since Info 1002-device1 Device --- up static_bgp Static master4 up kernel1 Kernel master4 up 0000 With Best Regards, Chris LIU {OPEN} Thales is in the process of carving out its Transportation activity (GTS) from other Thales' activities. In order to prepare this internal restructuring, a new e-mail address has been adopted and your GTS contacts now use urbanandmainlines.com. Please note that their Thales e-mail address remains also valid.