[Laszlo-dev] .local addresses work in mobile Safari now

P T Withington ptw at pobox.com
Fri Sep 28 04:55:18 PDT 2007


> Bonjour networking now works. E.g. if you’re using Mac OS X’s “Web  
> Sharing” feature to serve a web site using Apache from your Mac,  
> you can now access that server from your iPhone over Wi-Fi using  
> your-machine-name.local, rather than having to use the IP address.  
> This was a curious omission from iPhone 1.0 — as James Duncan  
> Davidson wrote back in early July, after years of using Bonjour  
> (née Rendezvous), “it just seems weird to use IP addresses  
> again.” (Thanks to Scott P. Richert.)

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