Creating sockaddr_in for CocoaAsyncSocket Getting Invalid IPv4 address

Question

I'm having trouble connecting to a Java socket server. I know the server is working because I connect via a Java socket. I'm using the CocoaAsyncSocket library to make a client connection from an iOS device. I've tried the following,

[socket connectToHost:@"XXX.XXX.X.XXX" onPort:9090 error:&err]

method but the server never sees the client connect and the client (CocoaAsyncSocket) thinks its connected. So thats no good, then I realized there was another connection method available.

So I'm thinking I should be using the connectToAddress method instead. I've used this post as a reference for my current code but I'm still getting an error and I'm not sure why. The only difference from my version and the suggested version is for the length they use sa_len and I was getting a error and xCode wanted to switch it to sin_len, so I did. I'm really new to direct socket connections so bear with me.

GCDAsyncSocket *socket = [[GCDAsyncSocket alloc] initWithDelegate:self delegateQueue:dispatch_get_main_queue()];

struct sockaddr_in ip4addr;

ip4addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
ip4addr.sin_port = htons(9090);
inet_pton(AF_INET, "XXX.XXX.X.XXX", &ip4addr.sin_addr);

NSData *discoveryHost = [NSData dataWithBytes:&ip4addr length:ip4addr.sin_len];

NSError *err = nil;
if (![socket connectToAddress:discoveryHost error:&err])
{
    NSLog(@"I CANNOT CONNECT!");
}
else
{
    NSLog(@"IM CONNECTED!");
}

The connection fails and the error is,

Error Domain=GCDAsyncSocketErrorDomain Code=2 "A valid IPv4 or IPv6 address was not given" UserInfo=0x8bac880 {NSLocalizedDescription=A valid IPv4 or IPv6 address was not given}

Checking the return type of inet_pton might give you some clues into what's going on. Does it return 1 or 0? anything in `errno`? — EdgeCaseBerg, Feb 07 '14 at 21:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '14 at 20:48

I changed

NSData *discoveryHost = [NSData dataWithBytes:&ip4addr length:ip4addr.sin_len];

to

NSData *discoveryHost = [NSData dataWithBytes:&ip4addr length:sizeof(ip4addr)];

and it fixed that error I was getting. However, the reason I wasn't able to connect via the connectToHost method was due to my server socket code. I have two server sockets accepting connections. I commented out the second and it worked just fine. I'm guessing it was due to the thread being locked by the second socket or something.

Creating sockaddr_in for CocoaAsyncSocket Getting Invalid IPv4 address

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