Re: [Refdb-users] php, cgi, jsp and refdb?
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From: Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...> - 2003-03-30 12:40:04
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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 |