--- At Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:23:18 -0500, Chris Branch wrote:
>I'm trying to create a simple C++ class that is able to send an HTTP
>request and retrieve the response on OS X (10.2 and later). For
>example, suppose the interface for my class looks like this:
>
>class cInternetRequest {
>public:
> cInternetRequest();
> virtual ~cInternetRequest();
>
> bool Open(const char *url);
> bool Read(char *buffer, int bytesToRead, int *bytesRead) const;
> void Close();
>
> bool GetHttpStatusCode(int *statusCode) const;
>
> ... more stuff omitted ...
>};
>
>Sample usage of this class might look like:
>
> if (request.Open("www.somedomain.com/example.php")) {
> if (request.GetHttpStatusCode(&httpStatus) && httpStatus == 200) {
> do {
> success = request.Read(buffer, sizeof(buffer), &numBytes);
> // ...process response...
> } while (success && numBytes > 0);
> }
>
> request.Close();
> }
>
>
>It looks like the implementation of this should be pretty
>straightforward using CFHTTPMessageCreateRequest() and
>CFReadStreamCreateForHTTPRequest(), but there are a few aspects that
>Apple's documentation does not seem to cover.
>
>In my Open() method, I would call CFHTTPMessageCreateRequest() to create
>the request, then call CFReadStreamCreateForHTTPRequest() and
>CFStreamOpen() to actually send the request. Questions:
>
>1) Does CFReadStreamCreateForHTTPRequest() take a "snapshot" of the
>CFHTTPMessageRef parameter? In other words, is it safe to CFRelease the
>CFHTTPMessageRef immediately after calling
>CFReadStreamCreateForHTTPRequest, or does the CFHTTPMessageRef have to
>persist until the stream is closed/released?
>
>2) Does CFReadStreamOpen() block until HTTP response headers are
>available? If no, how do I know when it's "safe" to call
>CFReadStreamCopyProperty() to get the response headers? If
>CFReadStreamOpen() DOES block, what happens if there's a network error?
>Will it timeout? How long?
I have implemented something similar (many of us have, I'm sure).
Looking through the sample code should help to understand the answers to
your questions:
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/CFNetworkHTTPDownload/
CFNetworkHTTPDownload.html>
...Duane
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