Re: Getting started communicating with AFP -- on the right track?
Re: Getting started communicating with AFP -- on the right track?
- Subject: Re: Getting started communicating with AFP -- on the right track?
- From: Eli Bach <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:12:22 -0700
On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:
Whoops.
I was just thinking about what I had proposed in my previous post
and realized that it can't work because I didn't tell the server
what protocol I was using (afp).
So it seems like either there's a higher-level API somewhere to send
these AFP commands, or maybe I need to open an NSURLConnection with
a url likeafp://10.0.1.204.
Which way should I go?
Jerry, what you described in your first email would work, because you
don't need to tell the server what protocol you are using. I am using
the generic 'will work', as I am not knowledgeable in the specifics of
the AFP protocol, just in the general method you proposed, which
appears to be reasonable.
By connecting to a specific network address/port, you already know
what protocol that address/port will use (in general).
Using a url like "afp://10.0.1.204", just says connect using the afp
protocol, to the default AFP port at 10.0.1.204. It is possible have
afp urls like this "afp://10.0.1.204:1000", which indicates which port
to use instead of the default port.
It is possible (but depending on your network, probably highly
unlikely) that the server is either 'serving' afp over a different
port and/or 'serving' some other protocol using afp's default port.
I am not aware of a higher-level method for determining the computer
name. It is more likely that one is available if the computer has
already established a connection to the server than if there is no
connection made, vs if there is no connection from your machine to the
server.
Eli
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