GNOME's GUPnP Released After A Decade Of Development

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME's GUPnP Released After A Decade Of Development

Version 1.0 of GNOME's GUPnP has been released after about a decade in development along with the associated GSSDP project...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GUPnP-1.0-Released

[FireBurn]

But what is it?

[devius]

It's the thing that allows pairing things with other things.

I'm also not very sure, and I don't think I ever used it.

[starshipeleven]

But what is it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play

[newwen]

What's the difference with Avahi/Zeroconf?

[petete]

This should be useful for connecting to TVs and stuff, I think. After this it should be possible to start developing screen mirroring.

[horizonbrave]

is it the same thing we've always been told to leave off on the routers for security reason (broken)?

[starshipeleven]

is it the same thing we've always been told to leave off on the routers for security reason (broken)?

That's one of the things it does. It's broken if it is enabled on the router as that allows whatever application in the network to open whatever port in the firewall (which is bad). http://www.howtogeek.com/122487/htg-...security-risk/

But when run on devices that aren't routers or firewalls (as it's not a centralized thing like DHCP, there is no server), it's not unsafe, and allows things like easy mediaservers supported by most embedded devices (the protocol, not the server) http://mediatomb.cc/
Or to get to a router's or NAS's web interface or ssh by hostname and not by IP (this is nice in home networks).