Writing "hello\3\0" to a socket returns 0x03. What is this and is that expected?

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After a client has opened a socket to the server, it sends a null-terminated ASCII string "username:password\N" where \N is a single byte which represents the client’s capability with respect to compression, timestamp|timespan and UUID, e.g. "myname:mypassword\3" .

Thank you for this, I must have missed this part of the docs. I'm not sure about the following however. If the server accepts the credentials, it sends a single-byte response which represents the common capability. What does this mean?

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From the link: "If the server accepts the credentials, it sends a single-byte response which represents the common capability."

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