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Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#11

Post by janerik » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:06 AM UTC

This does not work optimally on this site because the following issues:

It uses HTML tags in javascript alert boxes

http://tmp.fnordig.de/scr/aacc737f52.png

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#12

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:10 AM UTC

janerik wrote: post #11

This does not work optimally on this site because the following issues: It uses HTML tags in javascript alert boxes http://tmp.fnordig.de/scr/aacc737f52.png

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Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#13

Post by bartl » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:13 AM UTC

I thought Javascript wasn't allowed to touch any files on the local filesystem?

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#14

Post by ShirsenduK » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:15 AM UTC

janerik wrote: post #11

This does not work optimally on this site because the following issues: It uses HTML tags in javascript alert boxes http://tmp.fnordig.de/scr/aacc737f52.png

This currently works only on the latest browsers; like Chrome 24 on the desktop. Its still not 100% stable. Stability and support for other platforms will soon arrive through browsers updates and polyfills.

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#15

Post by jaip » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:16 AM UTC

bartl wrote: post #13

I thought Javascript wasn't allowed to touch any files on the local filesystem?

File API is the answer. http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#16

Post by chongli » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:16 AM UTC

ShirsenduK wrote: post #8

kybernetikos wrote: post #5

Is the data encrypted on the wire?

Files are transferred as blob. Encryption can be dropped in if required. :)

Encryption ought to be standard. Making it optional means most people won't use it.

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#17

Post by Geee » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:19 AM UTC

nextparadigms wrote: post #7

piranna wrote: post #4

It's based on code from my ShareIt! project ( http://github.com/piranna/ShareIt ) and both are interoperable thanks to my WebP2P protocol :-)

Can the WebP2P protocol be used for Bittorent, too, like instead of that Torque thing they have?

Someone else made a browser-based BitTorrent-client, http://hcliff.github.com/ampere/

Which, apparently, is based on this code by piranna.

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#18

Post by mridulk » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:19 AM UTC

ShirsenduK wrote: post #9

nextparadigms wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can the WebP2P protocol be used for Bittorent, too, like instead of that Torque thing they have?

Thats the plan :D. WebDHT is what we need to actually replace bittorrents.

that is exciting! :)

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#19

Post by ShirsenduK » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:20 AM UTC

bartl wrote: post #13

I thought Javascript wasn't allowed to touch any files on the local filesystem?

This was made possible through File System API. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/

Re: Show HN: Pure JavaScript P2P file sharing in the browser

#20

Post by ShirsenduK » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 11:21 AM UTC

pre wrote: post #10

Isn't the browser supposed to stop pages from making connections to machines other than the server they were downloaded from? Has that requirement been dropped? Or does this do something strange to get around it?

Welcome to the world of impossibilities with WebRTC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC