Re: gssdp to announce a web server?

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> On 9 April 2014 21:36, Karl Hiramoto <karl hiramoto org> wrote:
> > I'm trying to make a network device where you access it via 
> > http://MyDevice
> > I'd like it to be visible to OSX, Windows, android devices on the LAN 
> > if
> > possible.    Is this possible with SSDP?   Are there any code 
> > examples?
> > The device is assigned an IP via DHCP, for a non-technical user it's 
> > hard to
> > figure out the IP address.    Is this a suitable application of SSDP?
>
> For this use-case you'll want mDNS, not SSDP.

Uhm. The whole point of SSDP is advertising HTTP servers. But mDNS might 
be the
more wide-spread solution to this, I agree. Though Windows >=7 might 
rather
be more receptive to SSDP ootb.