Thank you very much for your reply; it completely answered my questions. Especially that link was very valuable; it showed that one
can reconfigure the library to make it a web client instead of a web server, but still it speaks the http protocol; that protocol is too
verbose for my needs, I need a server/client than can just send bytes to the other party (it's a private protocol and much terser
than that http protocol). So the second shield is not what I need; the first shield is fine except for the lack of being able to specify
a static IP address. (a server with a changing IP address is a bit funny imho).
thanks again and
kind regards,
Jos