[ale] [OT]How does Android pull off url "spoofing"?

[JD]

Which distro and release?

Under Ubuntu, the default handling for some devices via USB wasn't included
until 13.04. I had to install a PPA version on my 12.04 system - since then the
USB connect works perfectly on a Nexus4. There are instruction - via google.

For network based stuff, I use a ... er ... File Expert. It has an sftp client
built-in - among others.  copy/paste files or dirs as needed that way.

Any number of rsync clients are available for Android. j

There is also OwnCloud - never got it working between Linux systems, so I didn't
bother with Android. Anyway, that's an option too.

OTOH, I think in terms of directories and files, not media file types when
transferring.

Regardless, you will need to know the DNS name or IP of the "server" side. I've
found DHCP reservations controlled by the router solves that.

On 08/17/2013 11:56 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> The only way I've been able to get files transferred from my wife's Linux box
> to/from her Android phone is by using AirDroid.  gMTP just doesn't work.  Anyway
> when she brings up the app on the droid, it instructs her to go to
> www.airdroid.com (might not be perfectly accurate, I don't recall the exact url
> for sure) and lo and behold when she goes to that url, she's connected to her
> phone, which is connected via wifi to the router.  How in the heck does Chrome
> or FF know to resolve that url to 192.168.2.91:8000 or whatever it is?
> 
> I thought I understood networking but that's stumped me.
> 
> Thanks for any insight.
>