IPCSocket vs TCPSocket

[Eric_Brown]

Is there any advantages/disadvantages to using a TCPSocket vs an IPCSocket to connect to another local Xojo application on the same system/device? I researched IPCSocket, but the fact that it uses a file to transfer information has me leaning towards TCPSocket. This is mainly due to the fact that this is for two console apps (one main, and one a helper app) on a small device that incorporates a fairly small compactFlash drive. First is the performance issue of reading/writing to the flash, then there’s the flash life expectancy from the constant writes (although they’ve come a long ways). Anybody else have any experience with this?

[Dirk_Cleenwerck]

IPCSocket on Windows is implement as a TCPSocket on localhost.
See http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2735
If you read it, you’ll see that Aaron said that you might have firewall problems with the TCPSocket that you won’t have with the IPCSocket.

Because we’re forcing it to the local loopback interface (which is not something you can do from within RB since the lo interface isn’t reported as a NIC card). When you force it onto lo, it no longer allows any remote connections (outgoing or incoming), which also removes the firewall issues (since firewalls only care about remote connections).