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Is there a ZeroConf client extension for Firefox/XULRunner to be used in a zeroConf environment based on either mDNS or SLP?

I know of an extension already that's being developed by the ActiveState Open Komodo folks but it requires PyXPCOM support to be baked into the XULRunner runtime in order to access the Apple Bonjour libs for Windows. Is there anything else available?

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It appears that Andrew Tunnell-Jones has undertaken the task.

http://andrew.tj.id.au/projects/bonjourfoxy/

I have not yet verified that it works for me under Windows, but I am hopeful :)

It did not discover that I activated web sharing here, only with a user account active. Let me know what you find.

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
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BonjourFoxy has come some way since Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen's post. It's implemented as a set of binary XPCOM modules tied together with a JavaScript XPCOM service. The service can be used to register, browse and resolve services as well as to enumerate browse and registrations domains. It builds and runs on OS X 10.5 (Intel), Ubuntu 8.10 (32-bit) and Windows XP (32-bit) and has been run on Windows 2000 as well.

andrewtj