sisko445

I'm trying to interpret a web server log in Max/MSP. How can I use updsend to pass the information? I guess I will need a script to send the data in real time. How do I format the data so that I can then parse out keywords and so forth?

using-udpreceivesend-to-read-log-data-across-a-network

it's a bit unclear what you want to achieve. Do you have a script on the server's side that would send the server's log to MaxMSP over the network? Or you have access to the log file itself which you will read with MaxMSP and then you want to send the data from MaxMSP to an other application over the network?

Generally speaking, you can send/receive any kind of information with udpsend/udpreceive, the only restriction is that the network communication must follow OSC format. By this I mean that udpsend will automatically send everything OSC-formatted and udpreceive is expecting to get OSC-formatted data (in other words, if you have two MaxMSP patches communicating to each other with udpsend & udpreceive, you don't need to care for the OSC formatting as it will be arranged automatically).

For anything more specific, you need to give some details about your actual needs...

P.S. If you have to deal with something non-OSC, you might want to have a look at the set of externals that I did for binary network communication, although for a server log transmission that's probably a bit of an overkill.

using udpreceive/send to read log data across a network