iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. BSD Socket Library

Introduction

Finding the byte order of your device

Retrieving network address information

Performing a network address resolution

Creating an echo server

Creating an echo client

Creating a data server

Creating a data client

Chapter 2. Apple Low-level Networking

Introduction

Retrieving network address information

Performing a network address resolution

Creating an echo server

Creating an echo client

Creating a server to receive data

Creating a client to send data

Checking the network status

Chapter 3. Using Libnet

Introduction

Installing libnet

Adding libnet to your project

Resolving names to addresses with libnet

Retrieving local addresses with libnet

Constructing a Ping packet with libnet

Constructing a UDP packet with libnet

Constructing a TCP packet with libnet

Chapter 4. Using Libpcap

Introduction

Adding libpcap to your project

Retrieving network device information

Capturing packets

Decoding Ethernet headers

Decoding IP headers

Decoding ARP headers

Decoding TCP headers

Decoding UDP headers

Decoding ICMP headers

Filtering packets

Saving a capture file

Creating a simple port scanner using libnet and libpcap together

Chapter 5. Apple High-level Networking

Introduction

Performing HTTP(S) synchronous GET requests

Performing HTTP(S) synchronous POST requests

Performing HTTP(S) asynchronous GET requests

Performing HTTP(S) asynchronous POST requests

Parsing an RSS feed with NSXMLParser NSURL and NSData

Creating a peer-to-peer bluetooth network

Chapter 6. Bonjour

Introduction

Publishing a Bonjour service

Discovering a Bonjour service

Resolving a Bonjour service

Creating an echo server that uses Bonjour to advertise the service

Creating an echo client that uses Bonjour to discover the service

Chapter 7. AFNetworking 2.0 Library

Introduction

Checking the network connection type and changes

Creating a web client using AFHTTPSessionManager

Creating a custom response serializer

Using the UIImageView+AFNetworking category

Downloading files with a progress bar

Chapter 8. MKNetworkKit

Introduction

Creating and using the MKNetworkKit engine

Uploading a file using MKNetworkKit

Downloading a file using MKNetworkKit

Using the UIImageView+MKNetworkKitAdditions.h category and caching the images

Adding a progress bar to upload or download