Would be cool if GAE team could setup a new API to let us interface with iPhone push service.
I created a feature request for this, star it if you want ;) http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1291 2009/4/12 RSW <[email protected]>: > > Yes, sadly, it is a binary data, one-way secure socket (no > acknowledgement), but I guess it is not too surprising as a > performance optimization. As a corporate programmer I see this for > data sets like press releases and raw stock quote data; they are often > streamed down a raw socket to ensure real-time streams. I can't even > guess what the volume of data would be, but I wonder if it is the > anticipated data flow from a popular IM service like AIM the prompted > this. Still, it is annoying. > > The documentation is covered by the beta confidentiality agreement, so > you'd have to be a registered developer. > > Is there a way to create a limited functionality socket (and ssl) > implementation? I assume Google doesn't support the lib because it > might allow apps to probe their data centres or support other > nefarious activity (enforcing sandboxing). For instance, would it be > possible to limit sockets to domain names, not IP addresses? And limit > the domain names that can be accessed? > > As a note, I will be using Azure instead of Google App, since it does > not limit access to sockets. > > -Ronald. > > On Apr 12, 4:01 am, "T.J. Crowder" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Sadly, it's not an HTTP-based web service, and moreover it doesn't run >> > on an HTTP/s port. >> > We need a pure socket interface to talk with Apple push server. >> >> Well, that's not good. Do you have a reference for that? (I believe >> you, I just want to read more.) It seems surprising. >> -- >> T.J. Crowder >> tj / crowder software / com >> Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available >> >> On Apr 11, 8:24 pm, Marco Borromeo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Sadly, it's not an HTTP-based web service, and moreover it doesn't run >> > on an HTTP/s port. >> > We need a pure socket interface to talk with Apple push server. >> >> > 2009/4/11 T.J. Crowder <[email protected]>: >> >> > > Hi, >> >> > > If Apple is making the notification service available as a web app or >> > > web service, could you use a cron job doing a URLFetch? Apparently >> > > all push notifications will go through Apple servers, so they'll >> > > probably provide an HTTP-based API. >> >> > > FWIW, >> > > -- >> > > T.J. Crowder >> > > tj / crowder software / com >> > > Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available >> >> > > On Apr 11, 12:57 am, RSW <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> I realize that the current version of the app engine does not support >> > >> sockets at the moment. Does anyone know if this is on the roadmap? >> >> > >> I want to be able to create an app that runs a cron job that does a >> > >> periodic check on something and alert iPhone subscribers through the >> > >> new push mechanism in the iPhone OS 3.0. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
