On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Gary Blackburn wrote:
Which sounds kinda cool, even if I don't know what it does. :-) mod_rendezvous?Jobs recently demoed a version of iTunes that had a built-in streaming server and client. It used Rendezvous to automate the discovery of streaming-enabled iTunes instances on the local LAN, and so there rose a very popular misconception - that Rendezvous is a file-sharing or streaming technology. It's not.
Rendezvous allows servers to advertise their services, and clients to discover them automatically. The nature of the service being advertised is completely unrelated to Rendezvous itself. In the case of Apple's rendezvous module for Apache, it advertises the presence of the web server. Rendezvous capable browsers - such as Safari - can find it then, without the end user having to deal with IP addresses.
sherm--
"I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
