Communicating with AF_INET sockets

[Brian Wolfe]

Hi there,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, I apologize 
if it is not...
 
I'm starting to write a distributed application using AF_INET
sockets and I'm trying to find out more about recommended ways
to communicate between the processes. Could someone point me 
towards any sources or interesting books?
 
What I'm interested in is a protocol for the actual data that
is passed through the sockets, not the semantics involved with 
initiation/termination of the connections (that's easy enough).
I'm familiar with SMTP, but that's about the only stream protocol
I'm familiar with.

The reason I ask is that I want to be sure that the 'protocol'
I'm creating today will be easily modified tomorrow.

Regards,
Brian.

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