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.
>
> >
>

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