Re: NSFileHandle -socketProtocol

[Chris B . Vetter]

On 2002-11-11 23:40:30 -0800 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 11:28  pm, Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> > please, someone enlighten me: why is it defined as
> >     - (NSString *) socketProtocol;
> > and returns nil? Shouldn't it be an int?
> It returns the protocol name (eg. "ssl" or "tcp") as documented.

So the actual implementation should be done by subclasses. ?!

The problem here is, SSL is no _socket_.
SSL is between PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM and your application.

> Hopefully in future it might return other protocol names like 
> "unix", "socks"

Huh? unix? socks? unix domain sockets? NFS?

WTF???

Are we talking about different interpretations of the terms "socket" 
and
"protocol" here?

> etc. There is no int value it could return.

Read RFC790 and RFC1700 ... or do a

 grep -R IPPROTO /usr/include/*

It would make more sense for -socketProtocol to return something like
IPPROTO_TCP instead of @"tdp".

Unless of course your definition of "socket" differs from everybody 
else's.

--
Chris