I thought so! The Cocoa frameworks offer so many variants such as offering NSOperation for autonomous threads, etc.
I just want to keep it simple: request data and let the data flow. Ric. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Anguish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:59 PM To: Lee, Frederick Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: What is the preferred aynchronous data load using a common protocol like HTTP? NSURLConnection without a doubt. On 28-Aug-08, at 4:24 PM, Lee, Frederick wrote: > Greetings: > > I need to continuously receive data (textual, xml format) from a > server asynchronously, in the background to the ignorance of the > end-user. > > That is, to be able to retrieve a stream of xml data (loading/ > processing > variables) onto the front-end until the user chooses to exit. > > > > I'm looking for the simplest & most-efficient method to pull this off. > > > > Should I use NSURLConnection, using delegation; or NSFileHandle/ > NSTask > - perhaps within NSOperation? > > > > This is for the latest Leopard OS: OS 10.5+. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
