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In an effort to learn more about networking I’d like to do an exercise: write some code on an iPhone and macbook laptop that allows the devices to communicate over HTTP.
How would I set this up in general? I could write a very simple web server as illustrated in Beej’s Guide. Then run this and make requests from the phone. Assume the two devices will be on the same wifi network.
Using HTTP between two apps is very inefficient. Use NSNetService and raw sockets.
NSNetService Docs
There is an example project that shows how to setup the service for publishing, connect 2 services, and consume data from a socket connection.