Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Bluetooth Service
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:29:52 +0100

Hi Zia,

> At first, I would want to make a simple chat application lookalike. The
> aim would be for client to discover services and establish connection to
> the server socket. Once having that, I was thinking about streaming
> other web-contents/xml using the connection. While reading the Bluetooth
> specification, I read about HTTP service, but again I don't know whether
> if its implemented in Bluez, or how can it can be implemented. 
> 
> Also, for me the mystery is what happens when the service is being
> discovered? How does the client makes the connection to the service
> itself? Is there any relevant documentation around over it?

you can use L2CAP or RFCOMM based sockets for it. The BlueZ utils/test
directory contains example programs for it. You should look at it and
start writing your own code. Look at my latest slides for a more general
overview (http://www.holtmann.org/papers/bluetooth/wtc2003_slides.pdf).

Regards

Marcel


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