Re: AFP Connection for ....
Re: AFP Connection for ....
- Subject: Re: AFP Connection for ....
- From: email@hidden (David E. Gelhar)
- Date: 16 Jan 2009 13:57:31 -0500
There's plenty of documentation on the AFP protocol (reference and guide):
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Reference/AFP_Reference/Reference/reference.html
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/AFP/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
or, if you want to go all the way back to the original AppleTalk-based version:
http://developer.apple.com/MacOs/opentransport/docs/dev/Inside_AppleTalk.pdf
"probably pretty complex" is putting it mildly :-)
I concur that the Finder does not appear to be using AFP to locate icons (I don't
see AFP traffic in tcpdump when browsing in the Finder).
--- Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
What you should really be asking is "where can I find documentation on the AFP
protocol?" or perhaps "what AFP APIs can I use?" A quick look didn't turn up any
actual protocol documentation; I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't document it, and
there are a few open-source implementations such as netatalk, but they didn't
have any obvious links to protocol docs. In any case, my hunch is that the protocol
is probably pretty complex, and that it would be a lot better to look for an OS
API that you could call into instead. (But at a higher level, I still feel that
using AFP to get the server icon is not the right way to go, or at least not the
way the Finder does it.)
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