Node.js Physical Web Advertiser

phyweb is a Node.js advertiser for Physical-Web. It supports currently advertising URLs over SSDP protocol.

Requirement

• Requires Node.js >= 0.10.x (tested with v0.10.25)
• No Platform requirements: Win, Linux and Mac are supported

Setup

• clone module and install dependencies

   git clone <URL to this repository>
   cd phyweb
   npm install
  

Usage

• run following command in phyweb folder

   node phyweb URL [URL2] [URL2] ...
  

• Example: advertise the two URLs http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/fame and http://physical-web.org

   node phyweb URL http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/fame http://physical-web.org
  

How it works?

phyweb waits for SSDP M-SEARCH requests with type urn:physical-web-org:device:Basic:1 from Physical-Web clients and replies with a SSDP packet for each URL. Below are the SSDP search and response packets for the example above:

• Physical-Web Client e.g. Android or iOS client sends the following SSDP M-SEARCH Packet:

   M-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1
   HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900
   MAN: "ssdp:discover"
   MX: 2
   ST: urn:physical-web-org:device:Basic:1
  

• phyweb receives the M-SEARCH request and responds with the following SSDP packets (one packet for each URL):

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   NT: urn:physical-web-org:device:Basic:1
   USN: uuid:6bd5eabd-b7c8-4f7b-ae6c-a30ccdeb5988::urn:physical-web-org:device:Basic:1
   LOCATION: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/fame
   SERVER: Windows_NT/6.1.7601 UPnP/1.1 phyweb/0.0.1
  

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   NT: urn:physical-web-org:device:Basic:1
   USN: uuid:6bd5eabd-b7c8-4f7b-ae6c-a30ccdeb5988::urn:physical-web-org:device:Basic:1
   LOCATION: http://physical-web.org
   SERVER: Windows_NT/6.1.7601 UPnP/1.1 phyweb/0.0.1
  

• Physical-Web client needs to read the LOCATION header and pass the URL (value of LOCATION header) to the corresponding component in the Physical-Web client for further processing and then to display the result to the user.

License

Copyright 2014 Fraunhofer FOKUS

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Contact

Fraunhofer FOKUS - Competence Center FAME // Future Applications and Media