Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
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Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#2If you're tunneling SSH through HTTP, shouldn't it actually be "Any protocol of top of web"?
Also interesting choice to use C++. I don't see the headers for Civet or Mongoose, or even libcurl in the Makefile. Is it your own HTTP implementation on both sides?
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#3Yes, but does it support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#4Fun project.
But isn’t this “just” a service bus with another name, that uses http for transport ?
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#5What are the primary protocols that you envisioned this would be most useful with?
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#6Yes, but does it support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Yes, but you would not need it since you could connect via SSH directly when having IPoAC connectivity. The ping might suck though.
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#7I think I've used https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/httptunnel (or another very similar tool) in the past to get around restrictive networks that pass http traffic. That was more than a decade ago though.
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#8If you're tunneling SSH through HTTP, shouldn't it actually be "Any protocol of top of web"? Also interesting choice to use C++. I don't see the headers for Civet or Mongoose, or even libcurl in the Makefile. Is it your own HTTP implementation on both sides?
It doesn't really need to support the full HTTP spec given that both the client and server are under its control... Any subset will do; all you really need to do is respond with a 200 header.
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#9Currently Webrtc have to go thru TURN servers to achieve P2P calling on few networks,
Can a similar thing be used to send them over http/https and have a js code on receiving side, convert it into UDP Webrtc data, bypassing the need for a costly TURN server
Re: Show HN: Wotop – Web on top of any protocol
#10If you're tunneling SSH through HTTP, shouldn't it actually be "Any protocol of top of web"? Also interesting choice to use C++. I don't see the headers for Civet or Mongoose, or even libcurl in the Makefile. Is it your own HTTP implementation on both sides?
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