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IIRC it's just using websockets to sort of proxy http requests. They still go through a central server. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555 http://news

IIRC it's just using websockets to sort of proxy http requests. They still go through a central server. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555 Also, when PeerConnection gets its Data api implemented this will be more literally possible. You could connect to someone with minimal routing from a server and then serve basically whatever peer to peer. You know, your friends could share metadata among themselves and a webapp in your browser could provide you real time access to the files associated with that metadata when they [or their server] is online, etc.

Nux 14y ago
This reminds me of the excellent Firefox extension AllPeers from years ago that had this feature (along with some sort of p2p chat). I miss it sorely to this day. I wish someone had come up with an alternative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllPeers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllPeers http://techcrunch.com/2006/01/03/allpeers-is-the-firefox-killer-app/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/01/03/allpeers-is-the-firefox-kil...
vr000m 14y ago
Data API will use SCTP and not TCP so there are some considerations for implementing HTTP over SCTP based channel. Also it depends on what Congestion control the SCTP implements/enables. There are also NAT traversal considerations which would make connection setup longer when compared to HTTP based infrastructure. Of course, as the underlying transport matures over time (or people build extensive libraries in JS to over come the deficiencies), we will see if data API will become larger than its current vision (of serving data in-band with multimedia) [RELIABLE vs UNRELIABLE DATA CHANNEL]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01#section-3 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01... [CONGESTION CONTROL] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01#section-5 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01...
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  PeerConnection API supports traditional NAT traversal mechanisms though there are a very, very, very small number of cases that can be handled by a privileged user that can't be emulated in the browser.
  - vr000m 14y ago
    What do you mean? Do you mean for a non-p2p applications or in general?

Nux 14y ago

This reminds me of the excellent Firefox extension AllPeers from years ago that had this feature (along with some sort of p2p chat). I miss it sorely to this day. I wish someone had come up with an alternative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllPeers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllPeers http://techcrunch.com/2006/01/03/allpeers-is-the-firefox-killer-app/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/01/03/allpeers-is-the-firefox-kil...

vr000m 14y ago

Data API will use SCTP and not TCP so there are some considerations for implementing HTTP over SCTP based channel. Also it depends on what Congestion control the SCTP implements/enables. There are also NAT traversal considerations which would make connection setup longer when compared to HTTP based infrastructure. Of course, as the underlying transport matures over time (or people build extensive libraries in JS to over come the deficiencies), we will see if data API will become larger than its current vision (of serving data in-band with multimedia) [RELIABLE vs UNRELIABLE DATA CHANNEL]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01#section-3 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01... [CONGESTION CONTROL] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01#section-5 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01...

drivebyacct2 14y ago
PeerConnection API supports traditional NAT traversal mechanisms though there are a very, very, very small number of cases that can be handled by a privileged user that can't be emulated in the browser.
- vr000m 14y ago
  What do you mean? Do you mean for a non-p2p applications or in general?