Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonUPnP in Epiphanycomputers/gupnp-ephy-2008-06-12-22-10http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/gupnp-ephy-2008-06-12-22-10One of the more useful features of the UPnP specification is that devices have a standard way of specifying a ... One of the more useful features of the UPnP specification is that devices have a standard way of specifying a "presentation URL", a human-readable web page representing the device. For example, my SoundBridge has a web page which shows the currently playing music and lets me switch radio station, whilst my router's presentation URL is the administration page.

Useful, but not exposed anywhere. Until now...

GUPnP in Epiphany

This is a small Epiphany extension which adds all presentation URLs it finds to the Nearby Sites menu, just like the URLs discovered using Avahi. It needs a bit more work as it doesn't yet handle being unloaded or devices disappearing, but it is certainly usable now.

If anyone else wants to have a go with it, the source can be fetched using Bazaar from here. Watch out for the currently hard-coded paths...

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