Just a few days ago, Mozilla announced a new Web API called FlyWeb that enables web pages to host web-servers that can expose their services to nearby browsers. With FlyWeb one can easily create discoverable services. Unlike with traditional HTTP users aren’t actively searching for services or content but instead let their browser accept mDNS announcements sent from nearby servers that implement the FlyWeb API. A server implementing this API is equally capable to deliver web pages like any other but it doesn’t have a DNS entry or IP address. Instead, certain announcement packets will be sent after the user has accepted to create and […]
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