Re: Talking to mail.yahoo.com from Cocoa program

FROM : Jessica Kahn
DATE : Mon Jan 27 20:19:52 2003

IMHO, I think you should take a look at authoring Sherlock Channels to
solve these problems.... at least as a possible solution.

--Jessica



On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 04:59  AM, Peter Fischer wrote:

> Alexander-
>    I don't think your question involves Cocoa, as it does how to talk
> http.  I've found the best place to look for information on things
> like http, ftp, smtp, etc is through RFC's.
> Check out http://rfc.sunsite.dk & look at numbers 2616 and 2617.  This
> should get you started in the right direction.
>
>  --Pete
> On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 09:29 PM, Alexander Dvorak wrote:
>

>> I would like to create Cocoa programs that can access information on
>> the internet.  Here are two examples,
>>
>> 1.  Writing a program that connects to yahoo's mail server, logs in to
>> my account, forwards my email to another email account, and puts my
>> email content into a variable that I can read and then display in my
>> program.
>>
>> 2.  Writing a program that connects to a weather server on the
>> internet, finds information on the current weather of a particular
>> city, puts this information into a variable that I can read and
>> display
>> in my program.
>>
>> So far I have figured out that I will have to create two  sockets
>> (client and server) and have them communicate with each other.  My
>> program is the client socket and mail.yahoo.com is the server socket.
>> Once I have created these two sockets (I am taking code from Beej's
>> Guide to Network Programming), what should my client say to the
>> server?
>>  Which commands will yahoo mail understand?  When yahoo mail
>> responds,
>> what is the format that they will answer in?
>>
>> If anyone has any experience in doing this in Cocoa, I would
>> appreciate
>> any help.  Thank you in advance.
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