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Rendezvous For Apache

Posted by pudge on from the next-up-is-zeroclick dept.

sapporo writes "Eric Christopher Seidel has released mod_rendezvous. The DSO lets the Apache that comes with Mac OS X advertise its services on the local network via Rendezvous, so it will show up in Safari's Rendezvous Bookmarks section. This lets you browse all web servers on the local network very conveniently. Nice one!" I wonder, could it work on Linux too? I would think so ...

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  1. Very nice idea by Matthias+Wiesmann · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I was also suprised that Apple did not activate this for personal web sharing. It is nice that somebody corrected it. This said, in my case, the hack does not work correctly: it seems the advertised local address has a period after the .local domain, so the browser can't find the actual web server.

    I really hope that rendez-vous technologies get ported to other Unixes soon. For instance, multicast DNS is really nice in LANs where IP addresses are assigned via DHCP. You can simply type something like ssh server.local and it works. When you use laptops, it is really a killer feature.

  2. Re:interesting... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take the Safari browser for example, David Hyatt is actually responding to other people's blogs about Safari and actually taking notice.

    If by "actually taking notice" you mean "fixing reported bugs left and right," you're right. Hyatt's team is doing some incredible stuff. They're just chewing through bug reports.

    I've emailed David asking if they plan to put WebCore and JavaScriptCore on the public CVS server so we can test newer builds. No answer yet, but I'll bet I get a "yes" back soon.

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