Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

QNetworkSession

To start a network interface or to tell the system to keep an interface connected for as long as you need it, you have to start a session:

QNetworkConfigurationManager manager;
QNetworkConfiguration cfg = manager.defaultConfiguration();
QNetworkSession *session = new QNetworkSession(cfg, this);
session->open(); 

A session is based on a configuration. When there is more than one session and you are not sure which one to use, use QNetworkConfigurationManager::defaultConfiguration(). It returns the system's default configuration. Based on this, you can create an instance of QNetworkSession. The first argument, the configuration, is required. The second is optional but is recommended since it sets a parent, and we do not have ...