Paul Jakma wrote:
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.
Well it would be nice if it worked for command line tools too.
Darren
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