[Anders Jackson] >> I've not looked into what's going on with jwchat, but I've been looking >> at mDNS for the last couple of days, and I think it could be really useful >> for avoiding modification of the user's hosts file. > > I would expect this behaviour as this is probably a virtual Web > server in apache (or any webbserver) configured just for jwchat. > If you check http at Wikipedia you'll see that the client sends the > wanted server name as parameter "host: " in the GET request to the > Web server. This is used to select the right Web server. The > solution with mDns is probably the most useful one, and not only for > this.
I agree that avahi/mdns would be very useful, and will change freedombox-setup to pull in avahi-daemon, avahi-utils and libnss-mdns on the freedombox. With this in place, visiting <URL: http://freedombox.local/ > gave me the jwchat web interface. :) >> Windows support needs more to get going - you can install Bonjour, >> which is Apache-licensed. Is Bonjour in Debian? Is it the same as zeroconf? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
