IOS as a web server

Question

I saw that there are several applications on the App Store that allow other computers to make an http connection to iPhone / iPad devices to transfer files. The web service seemed to be running on an iOS device. Curious how this is done / which class was used?

Thank.

Answer 1

Just display the IP address of the device, open the socket for listening in the application running on the iOS device, and execute the http protocol. There are several third-party libraries that can do most of the hard work for you:

CocoaHTTPServer or iPhoneHTTPServer3, or SimpleWebSocketServer, or MultithreadedHTTPServer3

Answer 2

As before, the best choice is to use a third-party library for this. There are basically two libraries for doing this work: CocoaHTTPServer and MongooseDaemon .

Both of them have an Objective-C API, but MongooseDaemon is just a Mongoose HTTP server shell written in plain c, while CocoaHTTPServer is completely written in Objective-C.

We decided to go with CocoaHTTPServer for a few simple reasons:

• Even the simplest property, such as setting the document directory for the HTTP server, does not exist in MongooseDaemon. You must change the #define in the included source file to be able to change it by default, which indicates NSHomeDirectory() .
• The MongooseDaemon library currently contains warnings about deprecated methods used in the Objective-C shell.
• CocoaHTTPServer knows things like Bonjour or WebDav, while Mongoose just provides the basics.
• CocoaHTTPServer comes with many examples that range from simple HTTP servers, passwd, SSL / TLS, or WebDav HTTP server.
• CocoaHTTPServer works with GCD to enable multithreading.

Answer 3

You can use GCDWebServer

It is a state-of-the-art web server for iOS and MacOS, based on a large central dispatch.

Answer 4

MongooseDaemon is also a good choice.

https://github.com/face/MongooseDaemon