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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook If you want to develop network applications for iOS and OS X, this is one of the few books written specifically for those systems. With over 50 recipes and in-depth explanations, it's an essential guide.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849698085
Length 300 pages
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. BSD Socket Library FREE CHAPTER 2. Apple Low-level Networking 3. Using Libnet 4. Using Libpcap 5. Apple High-level Networking 6. Bonjour 7. AFNetworking 2.0 Library 8. MKNetworkKit Index

Creating an echo server


In this recipe, we will be creating an echo server that will listen on a specified port. Once a connection is established, the server will echo any text received back by the client.

There are several ways to create a CFSocket. For this recipe, we will create a BSD socket and then use the CFSocketCreateWithNative() method to create the CFSocket from the native BSD socket.

To create a BSD socket, you must first create a socket using the socket() function. This function returns an integer descriptor that can be used to identify the socket for all future function calls. Once we have the socket descriptor, we need to bind the network interfaces and port to the socket. We create a sockaddr structure with the IP address version, IP address, and the port number to bind the socket. We will then call the bind() function to bind the sockaddr structure and the socket together. Finally, we will need to listen on the socket for new connections. This can be done with the listen()...

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