Introduction to CFNetwork Programming Guide

Explains how to use Core Foundation networking functions to work with low-level BSD sockets.

Organization of This Document

This book contains the following chapters:

CFNetwork Concepts describes each of the CFNetwork APIs and how they interact.

Working with Streams describes how to use the CFStream API to send and receive network data.

Communicating with HTTP Servers describes how to send and receive HTTP messages.

Communicating with Authenticating HTTP Servers describes how to communicate with secure HTTP servers.

Working with FTP Servers describes how to upload and download files from an FTP server, and how to download directory listings.

Using Network Diagnostics describes how to add network diagnostics to your application.