On 24 October 2016 at 19:15, Benjamin Francis <bfrancis@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 24 October 2016 at 18:12, Jason Proctor <jason@mono.hm> wrote: > >> i don't think any of the Android browsers support mDNS (and it's high >> time .local was a standard, IMHO!) but the NsdManager class makes API level >> integration straightforward. works for me. >> >> (btw i think there is an Android kernel issue which prevents mDNS >> multicasts from being received locally, which is quite annoying. affected >> me on FirefoxOS (which uses the Android kernel) also.) >> > > Yeah, this is weird because I understood that Chromecast switched from > using DIAL to mDNS for discovery some time ago and I thought they'd now > built the functionality of the Chromecast plugin directly into Chrome. So > somehow Chromecast functionality is using mDNS but it isn't available > globally at the OS or browser level. > > (I don't think Firefox yet supports it at the browser level either, it > relies on OS support). > > There's also this API for Chrome Apps/Extensions https://developer.chrome.com/apps/mdns but general support on Chrome for Android is not there https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=405925
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