Re: [Refdb-users] php, cgi, jsp and refdb?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 01:23  AM, Alan Anderson wrote:

>> What it means from my Mac OS X user perspective is that applications
>> that support Rendezvous have automatic access to services on the
>> network.  If I open my web browser bookmark window, I have a list of
>> Rendezvous servers.  If I open my ftp or chat clients, the same thing.
>> So I naturally just thought it might be really use to have this in bib
>> database clients.
>
> This certainly sounds like an attainable goal. It might be important 
> to note, that it seems like Rendezvous is NOT a protocol for 
> communication with a service, but rather a protocol for service 
> discovery. Once discovered, the client will still (I assume) 
> communicate with the server using the typical protocol (FTP, HTTP, or 
> whatever).

Yes; I think you've got it.

> Definitely sounds interesting--wish I still had my PowerMac. ;)

Ah, but the source for Rendezvous is available, and is apparently plain 
C.  Of course, I doubt it has all of the client code for other 
platforms that OS X has (but who knows, maybe it does), but it still 
could be useful...

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous/

 From the site:

> If you have registered with this site, you can download the source 
> code components of Rendezvous:
>
> Multicast DNS Responder (mDNSResponder), the component that listens 
> for and responds to DNS-format query packets, sent via IP Multicast to 
> UDP port 5353.
>
> IP configuration (the bootp project, which also handles DHCP and 
> link-local addressing)
>
> The lower level C APIs to allow servers and clients to communicate 
> with the mdns subproject of Libinfo

Some guy put together an Apache module for this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/modrendezvous/

Bruce