Simple Service Discovery on linux

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I am trying to implement some kind of service discovery in my network. In particular i want my linux powered devices to be disvored by an Android application. I came across ssdp and this seems to be suitable for my task. I was looking for some ssdp libraries for c++ but did not found any. Do i have to implement it on my own? if so, can you give a brief overview on how this can be done? Or is it just about sending NOTIFY messages over UDP, which can be done without a library!

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score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 02 '13 at 17:37

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Unless using a C library is against your religion, you could use GSSDP: it's a well tested SSDP implementation (it is a part of the GUPnP stack) that only depends on glib, gobject and libsoup. See reference manual and source code.

answered Aug 02 '13 at 17:37

Jussi Kukkonen

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 15:10

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The wiki article you linked to mentions UPnP as a successor to SSDP. Perhaps libupnp has what you need? http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/

answered Aug 01 '13 at 15:10

Shootfast

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Actually, i dont News the whole upnp stack, but just a mechanism for easy discovery of my devices – Moonlit Aug 01 '13 at 15:22
You have that backwards. SSDP is the successor (and superset) to UPnP. – hyperkinetic Feb 14 '14 at 19:52

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