- From: Tomoyuki SHIMIZU <tomoyuki.labs@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:02:59 +0900
- To: Laszlo Gombos <laszlo.gombos@gmail.com>, "public-sysapps@w3.org public-sysapps@w3.org" <public-sysapps@w3.org>
- Cc: Ke-Fong Lin <ke-fong.lin@4d.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Nilsson, Claes1" <Claes1.Nilsson@sonymobile.com>, "Edenbrandt, Anders" <Anders.Edenbrandt@sonymobile.com>, "Ekberg, Björn" <Bjorn.Ekberg@sonymobile.com>, "Falk, Mattias" <Mattias.Falk@sonymobile.com>, "Isberg, Anders" <Anders.Isberg@sonymobile.com>
Hi, > It seems to me that enumerating the local interfaces will be provided by the Network Information API which is a planned as a Phase2 items, so perhaps we should postpone this use-case for Phase2. +1. I have added this in SysApps Wiki[1]. Best regards, Tomoyuki [1] http://www.w3.org/wiki/System_Applications_WG:_Network_Interface_API On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:59 , Laszlo Gombos <laszlo.gombos@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Ke-Fong Lin <ke-fong.lin@4d.com> wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > > It's still not clear to me how to use the localAddress/localPort arguments for TCPSocket and UDPSocket. > > What are the use cases for these options? > > Local address is needed to select which network interface to use. On mobile device, that would be WIFI, 3G, Bluetooth. > Local port is needed for multicast receiving mainly. With TCP, client almost always use a random port selected by OS. > > >How will the app know what values to specify for those arguments? Are you expecting that we'll have some additional spec that will provide information about which local addresses are available and where they are connected? > > Yes, we've avoided that question currently. No localAddress set, means "default" network interface. > A way to enumerate available interface(s) would be helpful. > > > It seems to me that enumerating the local interfaces will be provided by the Network Information API which is a planned as a Phase2 items, so perhaps we should postpone this use-case for Phase2. > > Regards, > Laszlo
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