WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable (opens in new tab)

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84 pointshazelcough13y ago24 comments

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The docs say "Note that the server is only for brokering connections and does not proxy data between peers."

So what browser API does the PeerJS use to exchange data with something other than a server, particularly another browser?

Is this it? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol...

sendtopms13y ago

I tried disconnecting the wifi after couple of messages. It is not working. It needs server always it seems. senthil, http://mocdoc.in

RaphiePS13y ago

Just to clear up any misunderstanding, are you trying this on two laptops on your home network?

If so, you still need wifi for the connection between them, The cool thing about PeerJS is that the data goes directly between the computers (A <--> B) without a server in between (A <--> S <--> B).

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hazelcoughOP13y ago

Yep, that's it.

marshray13y ago

          8.  Security Considerations

             To be done.

:-(

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bbarrows13y ago

Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..

hacliff13y ago

Feel free to fork mine: https://github.com/hcliff/ampere

It's the only one I've seen that abides to the bittorrent spec (where possible). BEP 9 and 10 support incoming.

(Demo's broken, need to push a fix :()

hazelcoughOP13y ago

Make haste! People on Canary had a head start :P.

Also note that currently DataChannels do not support reliable transfer and have a small MTU, so sending enormous files does not yet work. With PeerJS you can send smaller files, but larger ones will take an unreasonable amount of time.

erbbysam13y ago

There is a hack to get around this (in Chrome) by increasing the SDP channels transfer rate (I think), still doesn't solve the MTU/reliable issue though. I originally found it via ShareFest - https://github.com/Peer5/ShareFest/issues/10 & have it integrated (in library form) here - https://github.com/erbbysam/webRTC-data.io I haven't tested this yet on Chrome Stable though.

dbaupp13y ago

And it's been in Firefox for a while too. (Nightly only, maybe?)

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ninjay13y ago

I always thought it would be cool to do distributed cache in browsers with this technology. It would be like an organic CDN, automatically making the internet faster.

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rohansingh13y ago

While it's not BitTorrent, I have a simple file sharing implementation and slides about data channels here: http://rohanradio.com/rtc-p2p

mtgx13y ago

I was surprised Bittorent was working on a plugin for the browsers, instead of using this. Same for their live streaming tech. It would be much better if you didn't need extra software/plugins to install to use it.

samg13y ago

check out http://peercdn.com

RaphiePS13y ago

Someone should build a meshnet!

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VikingCoder13y ago

I get no text in the blue box, but my Chrome is past the required version...

Your browser version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

Currently Google Chrome 26.0.1403.0 or above is required.

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marshray13y ago

The docs say "Note that the server is only for brokering connections and does not proxy data between peers."

So what browser API does the PeerJS use to exchange data with something other than a server, particularly another browser?

Is this it? https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol...

sendtopms13y ago

I tried disconnecting the wifi after couple of messages. It is not working. It needs server always it seems. senthil, http://mocdoc.in

RaphiePS13y ago

Just to clear up any misunderstanding, are you trying this on two laptops on your home network?

If so, you still need wifi for the connection between them, The cool thing about PeerJS is that the data goes directly between the computers (A <--> B) without a server in between (A <--> S <--> B).

1 more reply

hazelcoughOP13y ago

Yep, that's it.

marshray13y ago

          8.  Security Considerations

             To be done.

:-(

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bbarrows13y ago

Must stay up all night and develop first DataChannel based P2P BitTorrent style file sharing implementation tonight..

hacliff13y ago

Feel free to fork mine: https://github.com/hcliff/ampere

It's the only one I've seen that abides to the bittorrent spec (where possible). BEP 9 and 10 support incoming.

(Demo's broken, need to push a fix :()

hazelcoughOP13y ago

Make haste! People on Canary had a head start :P.

erbbysam13y ago

dbaupp13y ago

And it's been in Firefox for a while too. (Nightly only, maybe?)

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ninjay13y ago

I always thought it would be cool to do distributed cache in browsers with this technology. It would be like an organic CDN, automatically making the internet faster.

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rohansingh13y ago

While it's not BitTorrent, I have a simple file sharing implementation and slides about data channels here: http://rohanradio.com/rtc-p2p

mtgx13y ago

samg13y ago

check out http://peercdn.com

RaphiePS13y ago

Someone should build a meshnet!

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VikingCoder13y ago

I get no text in the blue box, but my Chrome is past the required version...

Your browser version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

Currently Google Chrome 26.0.1403.0 or above is required.

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