Simple Service Discovery Protocol

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Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) is an expired IETF Internet draft by Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. SSDP is the basis of the discovery protocol of Universal plug-and-play.

SSDP provides a mechanism that network clients can use to discover network services. Clients can use SSDP with little or no static configuration. SSDP provides multicast discovery support, server-based notification, and discovery routing.

SSDP uses XML UDP unicast and multicast packets to advertise their services. The multicast address is 239.255.255.250.

See also

• Service Location Protocol
• JINI
• Zeroconf

External links

• IETF draft revision 3 (outdated and expired)de:Simple Service Discovery Protocol

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