[webkit-dev] Proposed feature: Network Service Discovery

Oliver Hunt oliver at apple.com
Fri Sep 6 09:59:38 PDT 2013


On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:44 AM, youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ryosuke,
> 
> The two points you are mentioning make sense to me.
>  
> 
> For starters, most of users wouldn't even know what a local network is; let alone what discovering media sources, etc... mean.
> 
> Most users may not be able to understand what means “discover local network DACP servers”.
> But if a user is requested to grant/deny access to “Bob music library” service (the service being a DACP server), the situation seems getting better.
> The spec is a work in progress and may be improved.

For the sake of argument let's say this "discovery" is allowed to occur.  How do you talk to "Bob music library" without the web page sending raw data to/from the DACP server?

--Oliver
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