Send Data/Text From iOS to Desktop App on LAN?

[Monte Goulding]

On 20/12/2012, at 8:31 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> I'm just thinking out loud at this point because I'm not messing with code
> this very moment to try it.
> 
> The teacher wouldn't have to share their IP, necessarily.  The students'
> app will know the ip address and could then fairly quickly send requests on
> all addresses in that range (1-255) until they get the response from the
> teacher's app, because the teacher's app will also know what address was
> assigned to its device.  The teacher's app would respond with its address
> and the students' app would now know the address.  This is where blocking
> could be a problem, because if the students have to sit and wait on every
> single address for a response, the app is going to crawl.

bonjour does all this for you and is highly likely to be more robust than anything else we could come up with...

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