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TCP & UDP

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Is There a Standard for Encoding and Decoding in TCP?

You have to agree on the encoding and decoding standard that you're using. There's other encoding methods, like Go includes gob in its standard library. And essentially, it can do what we just talked about as far as I can instantiate a struct and send that across the network. It can be properly decoded on the other side using a similar type length value format. With UDP, you don't have to worry about that.

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