[insha]

Hi,

I'm new to programming on the Mac, so I would appreciate any help that anyone is willing to provide.

I wanted to know how easy it is to create a simple (tutorial) application that uses NNTP or FTP protocols, using XCode?

I have done development of Windoze based apps using Delphi and Visual Basic; and they had VCL/OCX components that provided the needed protocols, without me having to roll one for the application. Does it work the same in XCode or I am stuck with rolling my own components for the NNTP and/or FTP protocols.

Also, if anyone can point to a site or book that would take a newbie developer on the Mac, step by step, in creating applications.

Thanks.

[Arkham_c]

For FTP, I don't believe there is a standard library. Lots of people use CURLHandle though, which is a wrapper for curl (a command line tool included with OSX). You can get it here:

http://curlhandle.sourceforge.net/

There are a lot of other Cocoa networking frameworks that do ftp, nntp, and others. Look here for some samples:

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?ObjectLibrary

Some of those are not free though.

[Angus_D]

There's CFFTPStream as of 10.3 (see CFNetwork, part of CoreServices)

[Rickster]

IIRC, the Foundation NSURL loading APIs (available in 10.2.x with Safari installed, or 10.3 or newer) also support FTP, so you've go quite a variety of approaches to choose from based on how much detailed control over FTP connections you want.

I'm pretty sure there's no built-in NNTP implementation on OS X, though.

[insha]

Thanks for all the help.

I was more interested in cocoa classes relating to NNTP protocol. I just wanted to create a simple USENET reader as an exercise in getting use to network application development using cocoa. As my goals are to eventually incorporating Rendezvous in my applications.

[Arclite]

There are 3 good Rendezvous tutorials on this page. As for FTP, I would like to know too. I just downloaded CURLHandle and am checking it out now.