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I am trying to figure out how to get all the information that is being sent before i try to parse through the information. no binary just plain text. so i receive several lines and then i need to sort through it but right now i can only figure out how to sort through them one at a time. but if someone knows a way to parse the lines one at a time and continue until nothing else is being received then that will work too.

You'd have to store the information temporarily in a custom @window, or a file or something. Then parse through the @window/file in the on sockclose event.

the socket doesnt close until i close it in mirc. but how do i know when the client is done sending info to mirc?

That depends on the protocol being used. If this is HTTP you should be looking at the Content-Length header.

it is http but the browser isnt sending that header for some unknown reason.

Are you sending an HTTP 1.1 request? If so, I would guess you're getting a different header, Transfer-Encoding: chunked. If that's the case you have two options: parse the chunked data (awkward), or send an HTTP 1.0 request (simple).

i dont know how to make the browser send HTTP/1.0 but yes it is right now sending HTTP/1.1 but mirc is not receiving the 'chunked' header

Wait, now I'm lost. You keep saying the browser is sending you things. So you're the webserver in this scenario? In that case the HTTP 1.1 stuff is irrelevant.

There are two ways to detect the end of the data being sent by the client depending on the type of request they're making. If it's a GET/HEAD request then you just read until you hit two consecutive CRLF's marking the end of the headers (there can't be any data) and if it's a POST there should always be a Content-Length header telling you the amount of data being sent.

If you're using sockets and HTTP you should really read up on the HTTP protocol, especially if you're writing some kind of web server.

ok i've got this working now. I am actually reading the specs on http as i go, im trying to implement everything one at a time, so i do not start to feel overwhelmed.