Thanks, This is what I kind of suspected. Are there any wrappers around bsd socket to make it easier?
Thanks, Charles On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Heizer, Charles wrote: > >> What is the best way to test to see if a TCP port is reachable and will >> answer connections? I was trying to use NSSocketPort and NSConnection but >> I'm not getting a valid connection. > > You have to connect to it. Unfortunately, neither NSSocketPort nor > NSConnection attempt to connect until you send data, so with those, you have > no way of immediately knowing that anything is actually listening. The best > way is to get down a level and use socket(2) and friends. > > -- > Dave Carrigan > d...@openshut.net > Seattle, WA, USA > -- Charles Heizer Systems Management Solutions Group Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P: 925-422-0197 _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
