Provide direct connect to NTrip server without mountpoint

[ramtechjoe]

In some cases a NTrip server might not have multiple mountpoints and connection is done directly with just the IP and Port. It would be useful if a method was provided for these cases

[dotMorten]

Can you provide an example for that? Personally never seen this

[ramtechjoe]

I think it might only be something that is only seen with a private base station. I am not 100% sure on my terminology, here. But I think in these cases there is no NTrip Caster, there is an NTrip Source which is connected to directly.

In my case instead of sending a message to an NTrip Caster and getting a list of mount points, then sending the mountpoint name to receive the stream. A direct connection to the socket is made, and just use that, so this kind of replaces your Request method (although passing in the ip/port)

    private Socket OpenSocketDirect(string ip, int port)
    {
        Socket socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
        socket.Connect(ip, port);
    
        return socket;
    }

If there was an OpenStream that had no parameters, this could be used to perform this type of direct connect

        public Stream OpenStream()
        {            
            return new NtripDataStream(() => OpenSocketDirect());  //host and port come from constructor
        }