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 which 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.
SSDP uses port 1900.
See also
External links
- IETF draft revision 3 (outdated and expired)
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