On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Darren Reed wrote:
Has the NWAM team looked at UPnP?
You should see it broadcast looking for an http proxy.
*IF* you wanted to steer away from making something Solaris specific, I'd argue that one approach would be to adapt programs such as web browsers to send out a request for the http proxy on the loopback interface and for Solaris to provide a daemon that listens for and answers those queries with information provided to it via some "other means".
I think this is covered by 'Bonjour' aka 'Rendezvous' - local service-discovery via multicast DNS (DNS-SD), introduced by Apple, used by OS-X and IETF standardised.
It might be as simple as checking for a _webproxy._tcp SRV record (or somesuch - you need a PTR too I think) via DNS-SD.
We support Rendezvous through GNOME already I think. regards, -- Paul Jakma, Network Approachability, KISS. Sun Microsystems, Dublin, Ireland. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x19190 / +353 1 819 9190 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
