It sounds like it would just be easier to do sudo chat with a php
script under my current available tools.
On Jul 17, 2009, at 7:20 PM, glenn andreas wrote:
On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Development wrote:
I'm not trying to skirt around rules. Yahoo chat works on my
machine, So did msn years back when I had it and so does teamspeak
and ventrilo so I know there are ports out there that are free to
be used I'm just not sure how to go about choosing one or if I
should just hard code it. It's not a file exchange program just
text chat and the two iPhones will communicate directly with each
other rather than through my server since frankly I have high
bandwidth demands as is. That and I cannot run a chat server daemon
on the server since it's shared hosting rather than dedicated.
(As a nearly identical question asked less that a week ago -
seriously, do some searching to turn up a wealth of suggestions and
comments...):
In general, this will only work if the two phones are on the same
local network (such as on the wifi). If that's the case, you can
just use Bonjour for discovery and it will handle assigning port
number.
Otherwise, for example, if the two devices are using 3G to connect
to the internet, even if they are set up to accept connections, the
cell network NAT will disallow incoming connections. More
complicated approaches (google "tcp hole punching" or "NAT
Traversal") are needed for that (and I'm not sure that those
techniques will work across cell networks).
You can, however, have both devices connect to the same remote
server, and have it forward packets between them, but that approach
does not scale well.
You're really going to have to do some more research on networking
and peer-to-peer connections to understand the ramifications of
trying to have one random device talk to another random device.
Glenn Andreas gandr...@gandreas.com
<http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
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