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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

By : Jon Hoffman
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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

By: Jon Hoffman

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iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook
Jon Hoffman
Jan, 2014 | 300 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook
iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
BSD Socket Library
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
2
Apple Low-level Networking
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
3
Using Libnet
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
4
Using Libpcap
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
5
Apple High-level Networking
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
6
Bonjour
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
7
AFNetworking 2.0 Library
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
8
MKNetworkKit
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
Index
Index

Installing libnet

In this recipe, we will show you how to download and install libnet on your computer. Libnet was originally maintained on the http://packetfactory.openwall.net/ site; however, this site has not been updated since 2007. Since then, a number of individuals have forked the library in an attempt to maintain it. The version that we will be using is the libnet-dev project located at http://sourceforge.net/.

Getting ready

To get ready for the installation, we will need to download libnet. The projects in this chapter have been tested with the 1.2-RC2 Version, and you can find this version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/libnet-dev/files/libnet-1.2-rc2.tar.gz/download.

Note

Some of the code in this chapter have issues with Version 1.16. If you currently have 1.16 installed, you will need to update it to 1.2.

How to do it…

Once libnet is downloaded, we can install it by performing the following steps:

  1. Open a terminal window by going to Applications | Utilities | Terminal.

    Assuming that...

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