WLAN hostname works with Windows clients, fails with iPhone and iPad

[Quadrangle]

We created a wireless web server using Micropython v1.23 in an ESP32, using the WLAN class. For STA connections, we implemented hostname, allowing users to enter into browsers: “http://hostname”. Works beautifully with Windows PCs, but never on any iOS device. We went pretty deep into Apple tech support and they had no clue.

We’re thinking of implementing a static IP to work around this.

Any thoughts, hints or suggested will be appreciated!

[Josverl]

Have you looked into mdns names?
I think apple was one of the first to use that protocol, although by an other name , 'Bonjour'

That would be http://hostname.local

[Quadrangle]

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