System Applications WG: Network Interface API
This is the Wiki page for the Network Interface API draft in the W3C System Applications WG
Use Cases (list of links)
- Enumerating local address(es), used with Raw Sockets API when creating new UDP/TCP socket
- Binding UDP sockets to a specific network interface, which is required to receive multicast UDP packets
- Implementing network services which can be discovered by clients using Network Service Discovery
Previous Efforts and Related Specs
- Raw Socket API
- Network Service Discovery (Device APIs WG)
- Network Information API (Device APIs WG)
- previous version published on 07 June 2011 - an API to detect the interface type (3g, wifi, etc.)
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