view release on metacpan or  search on metacpan

Porttracker/protocol.pod  view on Meta::CPAN

The API uses a tcp connection to port 55 on the porttracker management
machine. The TCP connection must be 8-bit-clean (as UTF-8 is used as
character encoding) and can be driven either in binary or text mode.

Alternatively, the server also listens on the Unix socket
F</tmp/.tawny/.tawnyd> for local connections (where "none" is one of the
guaranteed auth methods).

There are currently no timeouts for the connection itself, but TCP
keepalive might be enabled server-side.

=head2 PACKAGE ENCAPSULATION LAYER

The protocol is based on sending and receiving JSON arrays encoded as
UTF-8. The server expects JSON arrays to be sent back-to-back, without any
separators, but for testing purposes it is often convenient to end JSON
arrays with ASCII LF (or ASCII CR LF) characters ("newline"), effectively
treating it as a line-based protocol.

To support programming languages without incremental JSON parsers,