WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

#1

Post by hazelcough » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 5:11 AM UTC

WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable
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Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

#2

Post by bbarrows » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:04 AM UTC

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

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

#3

Post by hazelcough » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:06 AM UTC

bbarrows wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

#4

Post by marshray » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:11 AM UTC

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...

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

#5

Post by hazelcough » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:12 AM UTC

marshray wrote: post #4

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...

Yep, that's it.

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by RaphiePS » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:34 AM UTC

Someone should build a meshnet!

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by marshray » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:40 AM UTC

hazelcough wrote: post #5

marshray wrote: post #4

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...

Yep, that's it.

          8.  Security Considerations

             To be done.

:-(

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by ericz » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 6:44 AM UTC

marshray wrote: post #7

hazelcough wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, that's it.

8. Security Considerations To be done. :-(

One nice thing is that all data channels are encrypted DTLS by default

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by dbaupp » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 7:48 AM UTC

hazelcough wrote: post #3

bbarrows wrote: post #2

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

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.

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

Re: WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

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Post by mtgx » Wed, Mar 27, 2013, 8:09 AM UTC

bbarrows wrote: post #2

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

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.