CFSocket and General Networking Question

[idigit]

I need some serious advice. I have been trying to get this to work for DAYS, and have scoured every resource I can find, even Apple's documentation, with no luck.

Here is my problem: I need to network a Mac and an iPhone and be able to "write messages" back and forth, from one to the other (both ways.)

I have looked at everything from NSSocketPort to CFSocket. I cannot find any valuable resources that tell me how to do this.

I am currently thinking that a CFSocket would be the best option.

Here is what I think I need to do:

1) Create a "server" on the iPhone (I don't know how to do this...)
2) Create a Bonjour service, and start searching on the Mac
3) When it attempts to connect...I get lost.

I have had a lot of experience programming networking in Java (with ObjectOutputStreams and ObjectInputStreams, etc.), but nothing in Objective-C or C.

Also, please don't just point me towards an open-source package. This is something I want to learn and understand...

THANK YOU!

[dustbyter]

I've also done it in Java/C# before, but never in Obj-C

This here looks promising through....

Network Programming: Chapter 7 - iPhone SDK Application Development - O'Reilly Media

[idigit]

Helpful resource. I have looked at that resource and find it to be fairly useful.

The one piece I don't understand is the entire concept of getting the ip address, but maybe I just need to read closer.

Thank you for finding that.

[pufftissue]

Originally Posted by idigit

Helpful resource. I have looked at that resource and find it to be fairly useful.

The one piece I don't understand is the entire concept of getting the ip address, but maybe I just need to read closer.

Thank you for finding that.

I find this to be a very hard concept. Despite the tutorials, I simply can not wrap my mind around this.