Re: bencoding 0:

Elliott Mitchell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>From: skybuckflying <[email protected]>
> I was just wondering if the following "bencoded" string is valid:
> 
> 0:
> 
> This would mean an empty string ?
> 
> Looks logical to me... just wondering though ;)

Yup. Perhaps not the most common string to deal with, but clients will
encounter it and must correctly handle it. In particular the first client
to connect to a tracker will see that as the list of peers.


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