On 8/29/13 4:19 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
We would like to implement the Network Service Discovery spec
<http://www.w3.org/TR/discovery-api/> in WebKIt. There's an existing
bug <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101162> (with a basic
patch to show the API) in the bug tracker.
This is useful to allow media applications to discover network media
sources, players or DLNA remote UI's (and presumably plenty of other
things).
I was planning to start by implementing SSDP
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol>,
using GSSDP <https://wiki.gnome.org/GUPnP>, targetting QtWebKit (and
probably WebKitGTK and WebKit-EFL as a side-effect). The API itself is
pretty simple, but I'll probably need some help fitting it into WebKit.
Does anyone have any opinions about this?
In any case, this will needs a build flag :)
It is weird to have the web browser perform actions on the local
network. I am not sure why this would ever be a good idea.
Can you explain a bit what it is for? What are the common use cases? Who
already implements it?
Benjamin
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