Chris, boost-users, I'm currently considering asio for a project but I have to do a lot of typing to asynchronously read a simple line of text, when I do it like the http server request_parser::consume (via connection::handle_read). Has anybody already written a primitive, 'read_up_to(char delimiter)' or something? If so, I'd love to hear. Thanks! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services