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

[Sean McNealy]

Application layer redirect I'd guess. That would mean when you're thinking,
"My network doesn't work like this," you're right. You probably do connect
to airdroid.com and get an HTTP 302 to the phone's IP. The phone app could
have already sent the local address to their service.

Now how would it associate your connection to your phone's address? I'm
surprised there's no token on that URL, but you are behind the same NAT
device, so there's enough information to know which phone you're connecting
to.

Start up Chrome's Developer Tools to see the HTTP traffic. Or FF has
FireBug plugin that's similar.


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>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 192.168.2.91:8000or whatever it is?
>
> I thought I understood networking but that's stumped me.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> Jim.
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