+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Read a line from socket
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/* static */
+wxProtocolError wxProtocol::ReadLine(wxSocketBase *sock, wxString& result)
+{
+    static const int LINE_BUF = 4095;
+
+    result.clear();
+
+    wxCharBuffer buf(LINE_BUF);
+    char *pBuf = buf.data();
+    while ( sock->WaitForRead() )
+    {
+        // peek at the socket to see if there is a CRLF
+        sock->Peek(pBuf, LINE_BUF);
+
+        size_t nRead = sock->LastCount();
+        if ( !nRead && sock->Error() )
+            return wxPROTO_NETERR;
+
+        // look for "\r\n" paying attention to a special case: "\r\n" could
+        // have been split by buffer boundary, so check also for \r at the end
+        // of the last chunk and \n at the beginning of this one
+        pBuf[nRead] = '\0';
+        const char *eol = strchr(pBuf, '\n');
+
+        // if we found '\n', is there a '\r' as well?
+        if ( eol )
+        {
+            if ( eol == pBuf )
+            {
+                // check for case of "\r\n" being split
+                if ( result.empty() || result.Last() != _T('\r') )
+                {
+                    // ignore the stray '\n'
+                    eol = NULL;
+                }
+                //else: ok, got real EOL
+
+                // read just this '\n' and restart
+                nRead = 1;
+            }
+            else // '\n' in the middle of the buffer
+            {
+                // in any case, read everything up to and including '\n'
+                nRead = eol - pBuf + 1;
+
+                if ( eol[-1] != '\r' )
+                {
+                    // as above, simply ignore stray '\n'
+                    eol = NULL;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        sock->Read(pBuf, nRead);
+        if ( sock->LastCount() != nRead )
+            return wxPROTO_NETERR;
+
+        pBuf[nRead] = '\0';
+        result += wxString::FromAscii(pBuf);
+
+        if ( eol )
+        {
+            // remove trailing "\r\n"
+            result.RemoveLast(2);
+
+            return wxPROTO_NOERR;
+        }
+    }