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IPhone. Creating a binary data stream using an HTTP server

How do I set the input stream over HTTP for iPhone? My project is to gradually pull binary data from an HTTP server to an iPhone. The pattern is to pull some data - this is a scientific application - analyze it for a while, pull in more data. Rin, and I repeat.

This project is a port of a Java desktop application that relies on InputStream and it is the readInt, readString, etc. methods to do it.

Cheers, Doug

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If you want an API that mirrors the Java input stream more directly, you can look at CFNetwork based on C. However, Daniel's suggestion to use a URL loading system (NSURLRequest, NSURLConnection, etc.) is preferable because it uses Objective-C and very easy to use asynchronously. This makes the old stdio.h functions much easier to execute than java.io does, and is worth understanding.



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You can use NSURLRequest / NSURLMutableRequest along with NSURLConnection to achieve this, here are some links http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSURLRequest_Class/Reference/Reference.html , http : //developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSURLConnection_Class/Reference/Reference.html



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