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BitTorrent can cheat a little with web seeds. It treats an HTTP host as a "seed" in the swarm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding https://en.w
by discreditable 10y ago
BitTorrent can cheat a little with web seeds. It treats an HTTP host as a "seed" in the swarm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding
- derefr 10y agoSpeaking of web seeds, the magnet: URI scheme—with an embedded web seed—has everything it needs to be an all-in-one subresource integrity + CDN-neutral subresource caching mechanism. If browsers could resolve magnet: links natively, you could just link all your page's resources as magnet: resources with the copies on your own servers acting as the web seeds.