Recently I’ve been going through some Cocoa tutorials, including ones on Rendezvous and networking. A few hours ago I decided to test my knowledge of Rendezvous and write a Rendezvous Browser - an application to display all the domains and rendezvous services.
Well, it turns out you can’t scan for arbitrary Rendezvous Services - you have to know what service you’re scanning for. But, conveniently, Rendezvous Beacon (now called Network Beacon, a name change I don’t like) had a list of known Rendezvous Services (with the exception that the iChat service was wrong), so I just took that.
So anyway, I finished my application to display the Rendezvous services available on the network. Next thing I’ll do with it is add preferences so you can select what services to scan or add your own.
For the interested, a here’s a screenshot:
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