Re: Network communication with NSFileHandle & NSSocketPort

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Wed Mar 19 21:31:08 2008

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jeff LaMarche <<email_removed>>
wrote:

>
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>
> Hmmm... Actually, now that I'm looking a second time, it looks like you
> need to call both socket() to create the socket, then connect() to connect
> to a remote host as a client. Then you can use NSFileHandle to do the
> reading and writing.
>
> For a server, you can use socket() to create the socket, then
> NSFileHandle's -acceptConnectionInBackgroundAndNotify to accept client
> connections.
>
> It strikes me as kind of odd that NSFileHandle doesn't have an initializer
> that wraps the socket() or methods to wrap connect() or listen(), but it
> *does* have a wrapper method for accept(). Time to file a feature request, I
> think. :-)
>
> Do you think this would work as an alternative?
>
> NSSocketPort *port = [[NSSocketPort alloc] initRemoteWithTCPPort:portNum
> host:@"theserver.com"];
> int fd = [port socket];
> NSFileHandle *fh = [[NSFileHandle alloc] initWithFileDescriptor:fd];
>


Looks reasonable. Now if I could only figure out why I forgot about
NSSocketPort...

I think maybe I need to write a network app to jog my memory. Obviously I
haven't looked at these classes recently enough. :-)

sherm--