Question

My program consists of 2 parts – A server socket running on a different thread, and a client to test the server. I’m 99.9% sure that the server is correctly written (because I have tested it with a client socket), and all it does is returns “hello world” as a response. The server sits on port 3490.

Now what I tried to do is to call the server in the following way:

NSData *data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"http://localhost:3490"]];
    NSString *msg = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    NSLog(msg);

But I get no response. I suspect that the problem is with the address http://localhost:3490

This problem appears on the iphone an on mac.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Alex

I have this problem on the iphone and on mac.

Answer 1

It is possible that localhost resolves to an IPv6 address. Try using http://127.0.0.1:3490/ instead first before turning to NSURLConnection.