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

[James Taylor]

FWIW -
I'm running into the same issue.
Google has changed the file access to use mtp, which I have yet to get working reliably on my opensuse machines.
I installed SSH Server from icecoldapps on my HTC One, and it has worked great for me transferring over wifi.
-jt
 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> 8/17/2013   11:56 AM >>> 
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.

Jim.
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