Forbidden characters in TCP/IP

Question

I'm trying to send data from my ESP8266 to a NodeJS TCP server, the connection and basic charakters (48-90) are working fine, but if I use others like ASCII-Code (0,1,2,3...) I don't get any usefull data out of it. So what I was thinking about that there are some character which aren't allowed to send over TCP/IP.

By the way, I'm using this to write to the server, and I work with the standard WiFi Client library

char arr[255]
for(int i = 0; i < 255; i++){
   arr[i] = (char)i;
}
client.print(arr);

Nodejs File:

// Load the TCP Library
net = require('net');

var mysql = require('mysql');

// Keep track of the chat clients
var clients = [];
var uploadCounter = 0;

initMySQLConnection();


// Start a TCP Server
net.createServer(function (socket) {


    // Identify this client
    socket.name = socket.remoteAddress + ":" + socket.remotePort

    // Put this new client in the list
    clients.push(socket);

    // Send a nice welcome message and announce
    socket.write("Welcome " + socket.name + "\n");
    broadcast(socket.name + " connected\n", socket);

    // Handle incoming messages from clients.
    socket.on('data', function (data) {
        broadcast(">> " + data, socket);

        uploadData(data);
    });

    // Remove the client from the list when it leaves
    socket.on('end', function () {
        clients.splice(clients.indexOf(socket), 1);
        broadcast(socket.name + " disconnected.\n\n");
    });

    // Send a message to all clients
    function broadcast(message, sender) {
        clients.forEach(function (client) {
            // Don't want to send it to sender
            if (client === sender) return;
            //client.write(message);
        });
        // Log it to the server output too
        process.stdout.write(message)
    }

}).listen(10101);

// Put a friendly message on the terminal of the server.
console.log("Chat server running at port 10101\n");


var connection;
function initMySQLConnection() {
    connection = mysql.createConnection({
        host: "host",
        user: "user",
        password: "pass",
        database: "database"
    });

    connection.connect(function (err) {              
        if (err) {                                     
            console.log('error when connecting to db:', err);
        }                                    
    });  

    connection.on('error', function (err) {
        console.log('db error', err);
        if (err.code === 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST') { // Connection to the MySQL server is usually
                                    // lost due to either server restart, or a
        } else {                                      // connnection idle timeout (the wait_timeout
            throw err;                                  // server variable configures this)
        }
    });

    setInterval(function () {
        connection.query('SELECT 1');
    }, 60000);
}

function uploadData(data) {
    data = String(data);

    console.log("Package Length: " + data.length);
    console.log("GOT ASCII CODE: ");
    for (var i = 0; i < 255; i++) {
        console.log(data.charCodeAt(i));
    }


    //upload Code
}

Answer 1

The print function takes an array of characters as zero terminated c-string. It prints until a byte with value 0. You have zero at arr[0] so it is an empty string.

To send bytes, write function is used. The print functions convert parameters to text or expect text as zero terminated char array.

In your case it should be client.write(arr, length); where length is the number of bytes you want to send from the buffer arr.