As Tracy said, yes. A socket is just a network connection. Your flex
XMLSocket doesn't know or care what language the program listening on
the other was written in. A socket connection is like a call connected
between two telephones - if no-one at either end talks or neither end
understands the other nothing much will happen. It's up to you to make
conversation by defining how you will pass messages back and forth and
how you will process them at either end.
On 15/02/2009, at 3:41 AM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
I am not sure myself about my question :).
First, can Flex be listening to a socket that is created within
any program? I mean, if a vb program creates a socket using
Winsock will Flex be able to listen to such socket?
Second, if yes, how would data actually be transfered?
Thanks
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton <g...@...> wrote:
>
> Well...nothing would, normally. You'd have to set up a server to
talk
> to you on that socket, develop a protocol for conversing over
the
> socket, etc.
>
> An XML socket is just a pipe to communicate over. Unlike normal
http
> requests which encapsulate the http conversation so you don't
see it,
> a raw XML socket requires you to define what messages are going
to be
> sent by whom and what those messages mean.
>
> Does that help, or have I misunderstood your question?
>
> Guy
>
>
> On 14/02/2009, at 10:50 PM, markgoldin_2000 wrote:
>
> > I am trying to understand how socket communications work in
flex.
> > This code will connect to a port 8080 on a local computer:
> >
> > var xmlsock:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
> > xmlsock.connect("127.0.0.1", 8080);
> >
> > But what I dont understand is what would be sending data to
that
> > port?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
