iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition

HTTP Communication

Now for the second part of this chapter – adding web server functionality to CocoaServer so that it can receive HTTP requests from its clients.

Writing a web server in Objective-C

CocoaServer advertises an HTTP service, so it needs to be able to accept HTTP requests. Then, clients, like Notified, can use NSURLConnection to exchange information with CocoaServer.

Writing a web server from scratch is not a task we can cover in this book. Instead, we have modified some of Apple’s sample code to lay the foundation of a web server in Objective-C. This code is available at http://www.bignerdranch.com/solutions/iOSProgramming.zip in the solution directory for the CocoaServer project.

The web server code is encapsulated in two classes: ...