Re: Why just webdav and ftp in the dns-sd-method?

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Can't we look up the mime type for the URI we get from the discovery?
Then we can at least handle the _http service discovery in a somewhat
sane way. I'm not sure I'd want to walk into a Novell office and have
4000 web pages show up in my network: window, though. Seems a bit much
to me. I think I've seen the default index.html for the SUSE apache
install, enough already. :) We certainly shouldn't limit it to _webdav
and _ftp though. What about samba? We could probably check for _sftp
separately from _ssh, too, no? And I'm sure we'd want to be able to do
discovery of ncpfs shares. I'm sure I could find a lot more to list off
too, but I'm too tired right now to care too much.

-- dobey


On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:43 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:01 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:27 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   gnome-vfs only looks for _webdav._tcp and _ftp._tcp services. Is there a
> > >   reason for that ?  I
> > >   
> > >   'm personally using _ssh._tcp (sftp) and _http._tcp for my sharing needs.
> > >   Adding these to the dns-sd-method is obviously trivial and works fine :)
> > 
> > These are not generally used as file sharing mechanisms. In most cases
> > you'll encounter these they would not be used for sharing filesystems.
> > 
> yes, but the ssh service is announced in the discovery system, so I
> think all announced services to which Nautilus can access should show up
> on the network: window, for an easy access. Even if not used for sharing
> filesystems, I think it should still show up, to avoid having the user
> type the ssh:... URL's directly for the machines in his local network.