DNS-SD with mergeBonjour and rresocket?

[Monte Goulding]

Hi John

try open process to register and close process to de-register.

In theory you are meant to register a service type here:
http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html

rresocket would be tcp. The service type is very important. You browse for a service type, select one based on the name (which is usually the device/computer name) and then use it's ip.

Cheers

Monte

On 21/12/2012, at 11:31 AM, JOHN PATTEN wrote:

> Hi All…
> 
> Managed a little victory this afternoon with figuring out how to use a shell script in LC to register a Bonjour service. At least how to start the service. Not sure how to close it once it's started though.  This is what I discovered…
> 
> on mouseUp
>   answer shell("dns-sd -R 'LiveCode-Bonjour' _http._tcp . 80 ")
> end mouseUp
> 
> I'm using a little app that browses the network for Bonjour services, and I see my new "LiveCode-Bonjour" service listed under the http group.  However, because I used "answer" in front of the shell script, my stack locks up apparently waiting to answer. I can "command-period" out but I'm guessing I should have used a get or a put and I would not have locked up my stack? I can't test his out because once I've registered a Bonjour services with my stack, I can't figure out how to cancel the service and eliminate LiveCode-Bonjour from the list of available Bonjour services? Is there another shell script I can use to cancel the Bonjour service I just registered?
> 
> 
> So after I learn how to stop Bonjour service, which protocol should I use to restart the service if I'm planning on using rresocket? Is it just _workstation_udp. and the port of my choice? I'm assuming I wouldn't be using http and 80 if I'm planning to use rresocket for the iOS to send text/data to the desktop app? However if all I need is the IP why would it matter? Or is the Bonjour type that i register animportant (workstation_udp & port) component for getting rresocket to work?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> John Patten
> SUSD
> 
> 
> 
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