Purpose

The Simple Service Discovery Protocol Extensions (SSDP) is used to detect Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) devices on a network.

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Contents

This documentation contains the following:

• SSDP

  A description of the Microsoft extensions to the SSDP protocol that enable search messages to be unicast directly to a TCP/IP gateway.

• General Information

  Information for use when working with protocol documentation, for example descriptions of common data types and a glossary of terms.